Water utility
DC Water
Serves Washington DC. Notable for a lead-in-water crisis in the early 2000s traced to a change in disinfectant from chlorine to chloramine, which destabilised protective scale in lead service lines — a case study in how a change made for one water quality reason created a different one.
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- Ownership
- Independent municipal authority
- Services
- Water and wastewater
- Population served
- 700,000 plus regional wastewater
- Regulated by
- US EPA, DC government
Relationships
- Serves: United States
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Sources
- Water Services Regulation Authority — Water company performance and price review data. Open — attribution required · Open Government Licence v3.0
- World Bank / International Benchmarking Network — IBNET water utility benchmarking database. Open — attribution required · CC BY 4.0