Fact Sheets

The following fact sheets and brochures have been developed to provide information on various drinking water topics. Many include information and links to various other drinking water associations that can also provide useful information to you.

These documents have been developed to answer the most commonly asked questions about where drinking water comes from, what it takes for a community water system to get safe drinking water to your tap, and what you can do to protect and conserve this precious resource!

• Arsenic In Drinking Water

• Chlorine Disinfection

• Consecutive Water System

• Cross Connection Control (Intro to)

• Disinfection of a Well Water Supply

• Drinking Water Cost & Federal Funding

• Drinking Water Section (Intro to)

• Drinking Water Monitoring, compliance, and Enforcement

• Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

• Emergency Preparedness

• Fluoridated Communities in Connecticut

• Drinking Water Fluoridation    

• Frequently Asked Questions about Drinking Water

• Glossary and Terms

• Hardness in Drinking Water

• Harmful algal blooms and drinking water - Public  

• Hexavalent Chromium in Drinking Water  

• Intro to the Water Business

• Invertebrates in Public Water Supplies

• Lead in Drinking Water

• Living in a Public Drinking Water Supply Watershed 

• Manganese in Drinking Water

• Operator Certification Program

• Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

• Transient Non-Community Program (Intro to)

• Uranium in Private Well Water

• Water Facts

• Well Casing Extension Document