Entertaining, But Not Necessarily Accurate...

There has been a glut of exciting movies and television thrillers predicting all kinds of natural and man-made disasters.  We’re keeping a watchful eye on the skies for asteroids streaking toward earth and looking for monsters in the closet again.  These video spectaculars may be entertaining, but accuracy is sometimes an alien concept.
 
One of the contemporary issues recently dealt with on both the large and small screen is water quality.  A “movie-of-the-week” last fall centered on a deadly-but-fictional parasite that infected a city’s water system, and John Travolta is currently receiving kudos for a feature film involving a drinking water theme.
 
Fort Bend County Municipal Utility District No. 25 has extensive safeguards in place to prevent these fictionalized “disasters.”  We have optimized our water treatment equipment and technology for the protection of our residents, and we go to extraordinary measures to identify any water quality problem which might impact public health.   We survey our residents each year to learn of any special concerns or questions, and we strongly support open communication throughout the year, as well.
 
If you have any questions that might have come up as a result of television or movie dramas, please contact us.  If enough people are interested in these issues, we’ll even devote a future newsletter article to responding.  In the meantime, watch for asteroids if you must, but enjoy the excellent quality of our District’s water with confidence.