California

EPA Safe Drinking Water Act

  • Public Drinking Water Systems

    7,264

  • Community Water Systems

    2,834

  • Systems with Violations

    212

  • Systems with Health Based Violations

    0

  • Systems Listed as Serious Violators

    1

  • Unresolved SDWA Violations

    302

  • Oldest Unresolved Violation

    12/12/1995

  • Population Served

    42,030,672

EPA National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System

  • CWA Percent Non-Compliant

    0.16%

  • CWA Non-Compliant Systems

    49

  • CWA Total Violations

    2,895

The American Community Survey

  • HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    54,635

  • PERCENTAGE OF HOUSEHOLDS LACKING COMPLETE PLUMBING FACILITIES

    0.41%

  • TOTAL POPULATION

    39,356,104

  • MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    $91,905

  • PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES BELOW POVERTY LEVEL (5-YEAR AVERAGE)

    5.1%

  • MALE

    19,708,947

  • FEMALE

    19,647,157

  • MEDIAN AGE

    37.3

  • MULTIRACIAL

    23,738,174

  • WHITE

    13,848,294

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN

    2,102,510

  • LATINO

    15,617,930

  • ASIAN

    5,949,136

  • AMERICAN INDIAN

    114,271

  • NATIVE PACIFIC ISLANDER

    135,460

To learn more about individual water systems and violations please visit the echo.epa.gov interactive map for this state here: https://echo.epa.gov/facilities/facility-search/results?p_st=CA Other .gov state water resources: https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/saferdashboard.htmlhttps://waterdata.usgs.gov/state/california/ Additional state water resources:https://www.californiadatacollaborative.org/