Is South Florida water safe to drink? Here’s what you need to know

A University of Miami Public Health professor once said, "What you flush today, you drink tomorrow."

The quality of our drinking water has been a topic of conversation for a long time.

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was originally passed by Congress in 1974 with the goal of protecting public health by regulating the contaminants in the nation’s public drinking water supply. But in the 1980s, many people in South Florida put more faith in bottled water than in their local government’s ability to provide clean drinking water.

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