The agency also provides a third of the region's power supply, drawn mostly from generators inside big dams.
Michigan's Governor Rick Snyder then arranged to have Flint's water supply drawn from the dismally polluted Flint river.
This year's Water Resources Art and Poetry Contest, organized by the city's Department of Environmental Protection, which manages the city's water supply, drew 700 submissions from around 50 schools around the city.
Saltwater from the Pacific Ocean was entering the county's water supply, drawn in by overpumping from the groundwater basin, says Ron Wildermuth, who at the time we talked was the water district's spokesman.
That short-term effort to bolster Atlanta's drinking supply drew opposition from oystermen and environmentalists who said it would further damage species already hit hard by one of the region's worst droughts in years.
The water district maintains that its water supply — drawn mainly from seven reservoirs on the county's wet, western flank — does not meet water needs, and that without new supplies by 2030 it will be short water for about 21,000 households.
The complex system built to supply Constantinople had its most distant supply drawn from over 120 km away along a sinuous route of more than 336 km.
Pipes and taps in Flint have brought water replete with toxic lead into homes for some time since the cash-strapped city shifted water sources from Detroit's treated supply drawn from Lake Huron, and began to pull water out of the Flint River.
In Chile, San Pedro de Atacama drew most of its public drinking water from the Vilama River, which contained approximately 600 680 µg/L arsenic, and some homes with no public supply drew water from the San Pedro River, which contained 170 µg/L; in contrast, a town 40 km away had an average drinking-water arsenic concentration of 15 µg/L (Hopenhayn-Rich et al. 1996).
