The City of Dayton Department of Water will offer three tours of their water treatment plant. Participants will learn how water is treated using the latest technology and processes to provide high quality, clean drinking water.
If you are interested in touring the water treatment facility, please use the link below to register:
Water Treatment Plant Tour Reservation
** Space is limited to 10 people per tour.
The City of Dayton Department of Water offers lab services to help customers. More Information: Brochure Link
Volunteer Opportunity. Use the following link to volunteering at Dayton Children's Water Festival.
Here are some facts about groundwater use:
- Only 1 percent of the water on Earth is useable.
- The United States uses 349 billion gallons of freshwater every day.
- Groundwater accounts for 33 percent of all the water used by U.S. municipalities.
- 44 percent of the U.S. population depends on groundwater for its drinking water supply.
- More than 13.2 million households have their own well, representing 34 million people.
- 53.5 billion gallons of groundwater are used for agricultural irrigation each day. In 1990 that number was 2.2 billion.
- Groundwater is the world’s most extracted raw material with withdrawal rates in the estimated range of 259 trillion gallons per year.
Link to Ground Water Awareness Video
Link to Aquifer
Link to Groundwater is Cool