USEPA databases on drinking source water quality indicate that 10 percent of surface-based source water did not meet clean water and safe drinking water standards. In addition, SDWIS indicates that 8.2 percent of very small to medium-size community water systems that meet the needs of populations below 10,000 had health safety violations in 2003; these situations affected a total of 4,242,015 people’’ (RCAP 43).
As it is mentioned in the last statement, small communities that seek alternatives to establish small water systems, encounter the consequence that the water provided to their households do not meet water quality standards of purified water. Bad water quality is better than no water at all to these people even if their health is put at risk, if the federal government were to implement high quality water systems to these communities of less than ten thousand occupants, the diseases spread by this lack of quality would be diminished. The only worry would be the cost of this water