Greenville Water highlights importance of water by promoting national campaign

Most Americans take the water system that brings clean water to their homes and businesses for granted. They turn on the tap and flush the toilet without thinking twice about where that water came from or where it will go.

But could you imagine a day without water? Without safe, reliable drinking water?

A day without water means no water comes out of your tap to brush your teeth. When you flush the toilet, nothing happens. Firefighters have no water to put out fires; farmers couldn’t water their crops; and doctors couldn’t wash their hands. A single nationwide day without water service would put $43.5 billion of economic activity at risk. In just eight days, a national water service stoppage would put nearly 2 million jobs in jeopardy.

A day without water is nothing short of a humanitarian, political, and economic crisis. While unimaginable for most of us, there are communities that have lived without water. From man-made tragedies in Flint, Michigan, to water scarcity issues in Central California, to recent hurricane related outages in the southeast and Texas, water issues abound. There are millions of Americans living in communities that never had the infrastructure to provide safe water service, relying on bottled water and septic systems each day.

Fortunately, Greenville Water has a multi-million dollar main replacement program in place. We are constantly investing in our system to provide our customers with the best drinking water around. Greenville Water is proud to be nationally recognized for the quality and taste of our drinking water.