Download a free copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. All of us depend on water for drinking, agriculture, industry, recreational, and household use. In addition, wildlife and aquatic life depend on quality surface water for their existence.
Concerns exist in Kansas about the quality of our surface water.
The most common health-threatening contamination of Kansas surface waters is bacterial contamination. Bacteria are considered to be an impairment of primary and secondary water uses in most river basins in Kansas. Because of the threat to human health and widespread surface water contamination, concern and awareness of bacterial contamination of surface water in Kansas are increasing. This text was extracted from the publication, MF2460.