What most of them don't know is that the municipal water infrastructure they take for granted is at risk from decades of deferred maintaining and underfunding.

In 2012, there are still no drinking water standards for chromium-6. If Congressional supporters of the recently-passed REINS Act get their way, there never will be.

For decades, millions of Americans have been unknowingly exposed to water contaminated with perchlorate – the main component of rocket fuel and a powerful toxin that interferes with thyroid function.

With a new report released last week, the Environment Integrity Project unveiled more evidence that waste from coal-fired power plants is contaminating drinking water across the country.

Water utilities nationwide may have to test drinking water for 28 additional contaminants, including perfluorochemicals (PFCs), currently unregulated by federal law according to the Environmental Protection Agency plans.