An annual report by the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency found the city’s water met all standards set forth by the EPA and the state for drinking water in 2017.
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SCV Water and Los Angeles County Waterworks District #36 are required to conduct a series of tests each year and compiling the results in an annual report on the quality of drinking water.
This 2018 Annual Water Quality Report, also known as the Consumer Confidence Report, describes in detail the quality of local water supplies in the Santa Clarita Valley during 2017.
The report is available here.
About SCV Water The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (SCV Water) is a full-service regional water agency located in the Santa Clarita Valley.
SCV Water provides water service to business and residential customers – half are local groundwater supplies and the other half is imported from the State Water Project and other sources.
SCV Water was formed on January 1, 2018 and combines the former service areas of Castaic Lake Water Agency, Newhall County Water District, Santa Clarita Water Division and Valencia Water Company.
Note: This information was provided to KHTS by the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency.
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Having clean, uncontaminated water to drink at home and on-the-go is one of the most essential components to keeping your family safe and healthy.
Unfortunately, safe water is not necessarily a given.
A recent study, published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that in 2015, nearly 21 million people relied on community water systems that violated health-based quality standards.
To help ensure you are hydrating healthfully all the time — at home, in your community, on trips or in emergencies – consider investing in an easy-to-maintain water filtration device that can be used anywhere in order to improve water quality.
One example is LifeStraw, first introduced for people in developing countries without access to safe water and for victims following natural disasters.
The company now makes a range of water filters and purifiers designed for uses like emergency preparedness, outdoor recreation, travel and everyday hydration.
The refillable LifeStraw Go 2-Stage water bottle features a built-in filter, and removes 99.9999 percent of waterborne bacteria (including E. coli and salmonella), 99.999 percent of protozoa while also reducing chlorine organic chemical matter and bad taste.
LifeStraw is available online and at your local Walmart, Target and Sam’s Club.
What’s great is this is also a company that gives back — for every LifeStraw product purchased, a school child in a community in need receives safe water for an entire school year.
This highlights the growing need to take precautions both at home and when you travel, and to invest in products that give back.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has shut out media from a meeting led by chief Scott Pruitt who discussed the widespread level of contaminants in drinking water.
Mr Pruitt has said the issue is a "national priority” but EPA spokesperson Jahan Wilcox barred reporters from entering and reporting about it, saying that the media were not invited, according to the Associated Press.
When the news agency’s reporter asked to speak to a public affairs person, the security guards grabbed the reporter by the shoulders and shoved her forcibly out of the building, she reported.
Others shut out included CNN, the environmental-focused news organisation E&E, and MLive, a Michigan-based news outlet.
He did not specify which media outlets were allowed into the room.
It was also not immediately clear whether reporters who were asked to leave the building at the agency’s headquarters in Washington DC, had access to the livestream or whether it was only available in an adjacent room.
The mayor also commented that he noticed a theme throughout the day’s sessions which he attended: “the need for funding” and the “desire for national leadership” on eliminating or reducing these contaminants.
Mr Pruitt also pledged to work on establishing a maximum allowable level for the chemicals in drinking water.
While state representatives, the chemical industry, and environmental groups were allowed to enter the meeting room and even tweet about it.
The Michigan city of Flint has been dealing with massive amounts of lead in its drinking water for nearly four years, causing health and developmental problems in children in particular and forcing several residents to resort to bottled water for all their needs or move out of the community.

South Africa has always been a country with problems of water scarcity.
Every time a government official speaks about water issues in South Africa, they mention that South Africa is a "water-scarce" country.
South Africa is a dry country.
South Africa is also struggling to manage water effectively.
Cities need drought plans and, as far as I know, Johannesburg does not have a focussed drought plan."
A 10-point plan to make Gauteng water-secure: Build cities water-wise (incorporate green infrastructure with current water infrastructure) Start to value our water catchment areas Ensure we look after our rivers and wetlands Look at innovative ideas around grey water use Improve and maintain our storm water management systems Become more water aware and water sensitive about how we build the Gauteng City-Region Decrease consumption in Gauteng Advance to the LHWP phase 2 as soon as possible to augment our water sources While taking the basic water needs of all our citizens into account, we have to make water more expensive and place a higher value on it in society Urgently deal with the backlog of maintaining water-treatment plants.
Phase 2 of the LHWP is scheduled to increase the current supply rate of 780 million cubic metres of water per year to 1 260 million cubic metres per year.
"We are a heavy polluter," says Maree.
"Sewage is a disaster," says Sheridan, pointing out that a lot of research is now going into making water treatment plants on a local level resilient and easy to operate and maintain.
You need to consult with local communities and establish their own needs, before you can start to search for a solution," says Sheridan.

MONTE PLATA – Queen Letizia opened her agenda of activities on Monday in the Dominican Republic with a visit to a project to improve the supply of potable water to rural communities, so that locals can drink it and know it’s healthy.
The purpose of the visit was to highlight the activities that the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Aecid) has carried out in recent years in matters of drinking water and sanitation for rural areas, one of its priorities in the Dominican Republic and in which some 42 million euros ($49 million) have been invested over the past 15 years.
The project, financed by Aecid for a total 120,000 euros, began four years ago to serve some 1,000 locals, who until then had only the drinking water that local authorities sold them twice a month.
“Our life has changed 100 percent.
Water from wells in the area is stored in two 5,000-gallon tanks, and once chlorinated, the water is distributed to different founts from where the locals can take it home.
The tanks are opened twice a day for two hours, said Sister Flor de Maria Galan of the congregation that received the Aecid grant.
Queen Letizia was at all times very warm and friendly with the local women, and thankful that they opened their homes to her so she could see what their daily lives were like.
The locals used the moment to ask the queen to intercede on their behalf for the next step – paving the streets, laying sidewalks and installing sewers.
It has raised morale in the community.
She has been very close to us,” Sister Galan said.

Raipur, May 22: Poor in India lead miserable lives.
It is the poor and underprivileged who have to bear the brunt of any catastrophe first.
The poor are the shields for the rich to tide over any tragedy.
Again the poor and marginalised are suffering the most due to water paucity across the country.
Women and girls walking several kilometers to bring home water in pots and buckets is a common site in many cities, towns and villages of India.
Since water is scarce, villagers are drinking water from a drain.
A village in Dantewada is reeling under water scarcity.
Locals are compelled to dig water from an area near a drain, reported ANI.
"We will look into the matter, if there is a shortage of hand pumps then we will install them," Saurabh Kumar, collector, told ANI.
If these images also don’t move our politicians and authorities, we don’t know what would.

Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is pledging support for clean water on First Nations.
"We have a situation in Grassy Narrows that exists in too many indigenous and First Nation communities across our province.
People should be able to have access to clean drinking water," she said.
The federal government has committed to lifting 76 long-term drinking water advisories on First Nations across the country by 2021.
By Ottawa’s count, they’ve lifted 29 such advisories since 2016.
During her visit to Grassy Narrows Friday, Horwath also committed to cleaning up the English and Wabigoon River systems, adding she also wants to revisit the mercury disability board and health care for those impacted by contamination.
Wynne also addressed the issue of the waterway cleanup, while on the campaign trail in Toronto last week.
She said her government was committed to stopping the source of the leak, as well as remediation, but didn’t put a timetable on the research taking place into what method would work best for the work.
In a short statement to the media, PC leader Doug Ford agreed to work as quickly as possible to clean up the contamination.
For more information: Ending long-term drinking water advisories Mercury remediation delays ‘astonishing,’ Perley

GLENVILLE — Work will begin in coming weeks on a nearly $500,000 upgrade that will give the town’s municipal wells additional protection from Mohawk River flooding.
The Town Board on Wednesday approved contracts with Bellamy Construction of Glenville and Spring Electric of Averill Park for the work, which will include raising the tops of the town’s two wells above the flood plain, building a berm around the water treatment plant to protect against flooding, and raising the height of the access road to the town’s water treatment plant.
The work should all be finished this summer, town officials said.
“This resolution will protect the town’s water supply," said Town Board member Gina Wierzbowski.
“It gives me chills to think how close we came to losing our town’s water supply."
The historic 2011 storms damaged Glenville’s water treatment plant and came within a few vertical feet of contaminating the wells, according to a 2013 town report.
In 2015, then-state Sen. Hugh T. Farley, R-Niskayuna, helped the town secure a $250,000 state grant to help pay for the work.
Securing that money, and then doing the detailed engineering design work, has taken until now, said Town Supervisor Chris Koetzle.
The other $250,000 to pay for the work will come from water department capital reserves, Koetzle said.
The town water system has about 6,500 water customers, including some in Ballston and Charlton Reach Daily Gazette reporter Stephen Williams at 518-395-3086, swilliams@dailygazette.net or @gazettesteve on Twitter.

A study of drinking water in Appalachian Ohio found no evidence of natural gas contamination from recent oil and gas drilling.
Geologists with the University of Cincinnati examined drinking water in Carroll, Stark and Harrison counties, a rural region in northeast Ohio where many residents rely on water from private underground wells.
The time-series study was the first of its kind in Ohio to examine methane in groundwater in relation to natural gas drilling.
“Some people had elevated concentrations of methane in their groundwater, but the isotopic composition showed it wasn’t from natural gas” said Amy Townsend-Small, associate professor of geology in UC’s McMicken College of Arts and Sciences.
They found no increase in methane concentration or composition in groundwater over the four years of the study, despite the presence of new shale gas wells drilled in the study area.
But researchers found no relationship between the methane observed in drinking water and the new gas wells.
Lead author and UC graduate Claire Botner said the study solicited participation by homeowners who were willing to let researchers test their wells.
Researchers hypothesized that methane concentrations in the drinking-water wells they sampled would increase over time with the growth of natural gas drilling in the area.
The study concluded that methane observed in groundwater was “biogenic,” or naturally occurring and independent of natural gas drilling.
Wirkner said gas companies test the drinking water of nearby homes before and after they drill a well to observe any changes in water quality.

It is also by far the most challenging place in Pakistan to eradicate polio.
Difficulties include the large and frequent movement of people, poor water and sanitation conditions, and pockets of community resistance to vaccination.
In the northwestern part of the city lies Orangi Town.
The fifth largest slum in the world today, it is a tough place to live for the children who run around and play games in the streets outside their homes.
At many points, human waste mixes with drinking water lines.
The quality of potable water is low and filled with pathogens including bacteria and viruses, and it is the main cause of many water-borne illnesses in adults and children, including hepatitis A, acute watery diarrhea and typhoid.
Speaking on 8 May at the opening of the plant, Mr Aziz Memon, Chairman of Pakistan’s National Rotary PolioPlus Committee said: “This is the 15th water filtration plant installed in Pakistan, and the sixth in Karachi, and we will do all that we can with our partners to help raise the community’s standard of living including health.” Dr Shafiq, a representative of Orangi Town, thanked Rotary International for its continuous support of polio eradication in the area.
Combined with vaccination activities, children drinking the clean water provided by the new plant will now have an improved chance to grow up polio-free.
National Chair Aziz Memon said: “Orangi Town is one of the most underprivileged urban slums in Karachi and the supply of safe drinking water will improve health issues of the community and save children from water borne diseases.” He added that “Rotary is making intensified efforts in this impoverished area and has established a Resource Center in Bijli Nagar Orangi Town.” These extra steps towards ensuring that children are safe from disease also help to gain community trust, and form part of Rotary’s work to raise awareness of polio, and overcome vaccine hesitancy.
In 2016, Rotary International contributed over US$ 106 million to polio eradication worldwide, and in Pakistan, Rotarians are at the forefront of the fight against the virus.