Montgomery County Environmental Services communications coordinator Brianna Wooten said the water is safe to drink.
Your water is safe to drink.” said Wooten.
The county said certain P-H levels can be a sign of potential contamination, particularly involving lead or copper.
“It could be an indicator for if there are some other issues in the system,” added Wooten.
“It’s important to know we do not have any issues in our system with lead and copper or PH.” This notice was a matter of getting on the same page with the Ohio EPA determining PH values.
Environmental services said PH values can fluctuate.
“It varies throughout the system and actually varies what Dayton provides to us because they are a water provider,” added Wooten.
However, some Montgomery county residents didn’t think twice about the notice because they still don’t trust the water.
I don’t drink the water anyway.
“There’s nothing wrong with the PH levels currently in the water, nothing wrong with the testing right now,” said Wooten.

Water that is safe to drink, straight from the kitchen tap, is more of a luxury than we realize.
There are many places around the world where access to safe drinking water is either nonexistent, or only available for a high price.
But did you know that six million of your fellow Californians are also forced to drink out of plastic bottles?
One of the most serious water quality offenders in California is nitrate, which causes serious health problems for children and pregnant women and is associated with certain cancers.
A recent multiyear study at UC Davis estimated that 550,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer, 240,000 tons of manure nitrogen, and 4,000 tons of urban and food processing waste effluent nitrogen “are annually applied to or recycled in Central Valley agricultural lands for food production.” Some of the nitrate in these sources leaches to groundwater.
Back in 2012, when the state started really looking into it, another report from UC Davis, this time addressing regulatory options, stated, “Current regulatory programs have not effectively controlled groundwater nitrate contamination, and water quality in these areas has largely worsened for decades, a trend which seems likely to continue.
The resulting massive “Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program,” with its extensive monitoring and reporting, doesn’t have a lot of friends in farming country, and I think may be completely unknown in urban circles.
With six million acres of irrigated farmland enrolled in the program, farmers are paying well over $22 million dollars a year, and the costs are rising annually.
Organic farmers, using fertilizers that are much less water-soluble than those used in conventional agriculture, know that their best management practices contribute significantly less to the problem, but the state’s program paints all farmers with the same broad brush.
A regulatory approach that rewarded good practices would be a good idea.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – NewsChannel 5 Investigates first revealed that, as part of its lead-testing program, Metro Nashville Public Schools utilized a testing method that masks the real contamination problem in its drinking water.
MNPS responded by posting a claim on its website that “EPA VALIDATES METRO SCHOOLS’ LEAD TESTING PROTOCOL.” But our investigation discovered there’s a lot more to the story.
Related stories: MNPS Testing May Have Masked Water Contamination Flint Expert: MNPS Lead Tests Belong In Garbage Back in May, our investigation revealed that the district uses a protocol – called “pre-stagnation flushing” – that essentially washes away the evidence before workers collect water samples.
The top expert from Flint, Michigan, said MNPS’ results “need to be thrown right in the garbage” and the district needs to start over.
Ask Metro Schools, and they’ll point to the EPA’s published guidance for schools that says: “Ideally, the water should sit in the pipes unused for at least 8 hours but not more than 18 hours before a sample is taken.” MNPS has used that one sentence to justify sending crews out to schools to completely flush out the water lines the day before the samples are collected.
Go back to the sentence that MNPS likes to quote.
“However, water may be more than 18 hours old at some outlets that are infrequently used.
If this is typical of normal use patterns, then these outlets should still be sampled.” Later, in that same document where MNPS found the one sentence it likes, EPA says that testing should be “representative of the normal water consumption pattern.” In 2016, after the Flint water crisis, the EPA issued a "clarification" for public drinking water systems that pre-stagnation flushing does NOT represent a best practice.
Therefore, EPA recommends that sampling instructions not contain a pre-stagnation flushing step.” According to emails obtained through a public records request, MNPS spokesperson Michelle Michaud got an Atlanta EPA official to say that Grevatt’s memorandum “does not apply” to schools.
Special Section: NC5 Investigates: Lead in School Water

It took the deaths of her husband and son to force authorities to supply it to the slum she calls home Weak infrastructure and a national shortage have made water costly all over India, but Sushila Devi paid a higher price than most.
But earlier … the water used to be rusty, we could not even wash our hands or feet with that kind of water," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in Delhi.
Water pollution is a major challenge, the report said, with nearly 70 percent of India’s water contaminated, impacting three in four Indians and contributing to 20 percent of the country’s disease burden.
Yet only one-third of its wastewater is currently treated, meaning raw sewage flows into rivers, lakes and ponds – and eventually gets into the groundwater.
"Our surface water is contaminated, our groundwater is contaminated.
You fall ill because you don’t have access to safe drinking water, because your water is contaminated."
"The burden of not having access to safe drinking water, that burden is greatest on the poor and the price is paid by them."
To tackle this crisis, which is predicted to get worse, the government has urged states – responsible for supplying clean water to residents – to prioritise treating waste water to bridge the supply and demand gap and to save lives.
Currently, only 70 percent of India’s states treat less than half of their wastewater.
That does not stop 10-year-old Gauri, who lives in a nearby slum, from jumping in every day.

The maximum time you can survive without water, which makes up 60 percent of your body, is a week.
But as PennLive’s Wallace McKelvey details in a harrowing but utterly necessary report, years of budget cuts have depleted the ranks of water inspectors at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, putting your safety, and that of your family, at risk.
The numbers are shocking: Between 2008 and 2012, state funding for the DEP was nearly halved, dropping from $229 million to $125 million.
During that drop, the DEP lost 750 inspectors, who are carrying an average inspection workload of 149 water systems each.
The same budget cuts that hit the inspection side also impacted enforcement.
In fiscal year 2017, state inspectors visited about 19 percent of the state’s water systems, well below the national average of 37 percent, McKelvey wrote.
Tom Wolf signed into law last week includes a $5.6 million funding increase for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Those trainee hires, who would replace the aging, veteran inspectors who are moving toward retirement age, would eventually bring the DEP down to a more manageable workload of 100 to 125 water systems for each inspector.
At an average cost of $40,000 per inspector, lawmakers would need cough up an extra $3.4 million a year.
It’s time for Harrisburg to live up to that trust.

7 long-term drinking water advisories remain in Sask.

Around 400 residents of the Daghestani town of Izberbash protested in front of the local mayor’s office on Tuesday, demanding their water access be restored.
According to Daghestani daily Chernovik, drinking water in Izberbash, a town 50 kilometres south of Makhachkala along the Caspian Sea, is normally supplied just twice a day.
On 2 July, Mayor Abdulmedzhid Suleymanov and the chairman of the city’s assembly of deputies, Islamabal Bagomedov, shared a video on YouTube to explain the reason.
The mayor criticised the ‘destructive Izberbash residents’ for their protests, and relieved himself of responsibility, claiming he could not solve the problem without state support.
Another ₽360 million ($5.7 million) is needed, the letter said, for the completion of water treatment facilities started in 2009, and ₽350 million ($5.5 million) for an ‘external water supply system’.
‘No city mayor could solve this problem without ₽1 billion ($16 million).
Deputy Mayor Nariman Rabadanov claimed the shut-off was the result of an influx of tourists.
In addition, according to the Mayor’s Office, there has been a decrease in the amount of water coming to Izberbash via the October Revolution Channel (ORC), a major source of drinking and irrigation water in Daghestan.
Last year, Kadilabagand Kadilagabandov, the director of the ORC Office, stated that the company supplies 472 liters of water per second, in compliance with their contract, and that they bear no responsibility for the water level in the lake or the amount of water reaching Izberbash.
He claimed the local authorities were responsible for the degradation of the water network, but even in such circumstances, three years ago residents of Izberbash still had water in their houses 24 hours a day.

Madigan is asking a LaSalle County Circuit Court judge to order the dumps about 60 miles southwest of Chicago to halt operations after numerous alleged violations, including newly documented cases of banned materials dumped in the sites this year.
| Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan moved Monday to shut down a pair of so-called “clean-fill” quarries accused of taking in harmful materials that threaten to pollute local drinking water sources in LaSalle County.
Madigan is asking a LaSalle County Circuit Court judge to order the dumps about 60 miles southwest of Chicago to halt operations after numerous alleged violations, including newly documented cases of banned materials dumped in the sites this year.
Some communities, politicians and environmental groups have pressed state lawmakers to require groundwater testing around the more than 90 Illinois quarries accepting construction debris that’s supposed to be restricted to rock, concrete, bricks and soil.
Attorneys for Madigan’s office allege that even after filing initial lawsuits in May against quarry owners Sheridan-Joliet Land Development LLC and Sheridan Sand & Gravel Co. that officials at the dump sites continued accepting prohibited materials.
In January, the state EPA inspector reported “a distinct petroleum odor emanating” from two large soil piles at the Sheridan site, according to court filings.
That same site is now operating with an expired permit, according to the court filing by Madigan.
“We will continue to work closely with our General Assembly on legislation to enact change, while working cooperatively with the Attorney General to ensure that these sites receive the proper oversight,” Illinois EPA Director Alec Messina said in a statement to the BGA.
Madigan and others say groundwater around the construction dump sites need to be tested for potential contaminants.
Quarry owners, construction companies and trade unions have blocked bills in the Illinois Legislature this past session that would have required groundwater testing.

Brevard County school officials said they will test the drinking water at 13 campuses on the barrier islands for possible contamination after firefighting chemicals were discovered in the groundwater at Patrick Air Force Base recently.
Officials said there is no information that there are problems with the drinking water at the schools or the water from Melbourne or Cocoa water utilities.
Even so, school officials said they want to collect scientific data on the water before students return to classes in August.
Residents became alarmed about water contamination after recent media reports of traces of firefighting chemicals were found in the underground water at the Air Force base in 2014 and 2017.
The chemicals found – perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid – are in firefighting foam and implicated in some types of cancer and thyroid effects, school officials said, pointing to several scientific studies.
The school district will test the drinking water at the following schools: Satellite High, Delaura Middle, Holland Elementary, Surfiside Elementary, Cocoa Beach Junior and Senior High, Freedom 7 Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Cape View Elementary, Ocean Breeze Elementary, Hoover Middle, Indialantic Elementary, Gemini Elementary.
mcomas@orlandosentinel.com

Although about 98 percent of the households have access to improved drinking water, the reliability of water supply stands at 81 percent, the population and housing census of Bhutan (PHCB) 2017 report states.
The report states that about 98.6 percent of the total households have access to improved drinking water as of 2017 compared to 84.5 percent in 2005.
This is 18 percent of the total households.
According to BLSS 2017, about 63 percent of households responded to have 24 hours access to drinking water.
The report also shows that 69 percent of the total households without reliable water sources are in rural areas.
While 98.6 percent of the total households have access to improved drinking water sources, about 2,231 households depend on unimproved water sources, which includes unprotected well, spring, rivers, streams, lake, pond, dam and other sources as the main source of drinking water.
With 360 households, Chukha has the maximum households using unprotected water sources.
Other households have piped water inside the dwelling, piped water outside the dwelling, protected well or spring, and rainwater collection as the main source of drinking water.
The report states that about 77,996 households, which is about 47 percent of the total, have piped water inside the dwelling.
Phurpa Lhamo