The purpose of this report is to provide information about the quality of water that ECUA delivers to you every day. Our goal is to serve you, our customer, with a high quality and dependable supply of drinking water. We want you to be aware of the efforts we make to continually improve and maintain the quality of water we deliver and to protect our water resources.
Water is the essential element needed for life and is continuously being recycled by nature.
The water cycle begins when water evaporates from oceans and other surface waters and is transported to the atmosphere, eventually falling back to earth in the form of rain, etc. The sources of drinking water for both tap water and bottled water throughout our country include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs, and wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals and, in some cases, radioactive material. It also can pick up substances resulting from the presence of animals or from human activity. These foreign materials are referred to as contaminants.