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The Commission is one of the largest water and wastewater utilities in the United States. WSSC Water serves about 1.9 million people in an approximately 1,000-square-mile (2,600 km 2) area. It owns and manages over 11,000 miles (18,000 km) of water and sewer mains. [4]
The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) provides drinking water, sewage collection, and sewage treatment for Washington, D.C. The utility also provides wholesale wastewater treatment services to several adjoining municipalities in Maryland and Virginia, and maintains more than 9,000 public fire hydrants in Washington, D.C.
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is a public utility agency of the city of Seattle, Washington, which provides water, sewer, drainage and garbage services for 1.3 million people in King County, Washington. [3] The agency was established in 1997, consolidating the city's Water Department with other city functions. [4]
As Washington County grows, there is concern about the county's water, sewer systems. There's been an ask for state help to get started.
The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) was established in Maryland in 1918 and operated sewer systems in portions of Montgomery and Prince George's Counties. The commission began to install sewer connections from its service area to the Blue Plains plant in the late 1930s and 1940s.
Montgomery Water Works and Sanitary Sewer Board; Moulton Water Authority; Mount Andrew Water Authority; Mount Pleasant Battens Water Authority; Munford Water And Fire Protection Authority; New London Water Sewer And Fire Protection Authority; North Baldwin Water Authority; North Choctaw Water And Sewer Authority; North Clarke Water Authority
While performing research into premature pipe corrosion for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA) in 2001, Marc Edwards, an expert in plumbing corrosion, discovered lead levels in the drinking water of Washington, D.C., at least 83 times higher than the accepted safe limit.
Fairfax County Water Authority (FCWA or more recently Fairfax Water for short) is the main water company in the Northern Virginia region of the United States, and one of the four major water providers in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (the other three being Virginia American Water, the Washington Aqueduct and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission).