Chlorine In Your Water:
MSWD’s program of voluntary chlorination allows for greater flexibility in meeting taste and appearance goals than would be possible with mandated chlorination procedures.

Security For Your Water:
Making your water the safest possible and still maintaining its delicious, refreshing taste is an important goal for Mission Springs Water District. Your water is continually tested for compliance with California Department of Health Services water quality requirements and the District works closely with the Department of Health Services to maintain the highest possible standards. Mission Springs Water District provides an additional safeguard for your water: the introduction of a small amount of chlorine.

Chlorine has been used the world over for the last 80 years, as a primary means of controlling and eliminating health problems in municipal water supplies. MSWD’s program of voluntary chlorination allows for greater flexibility in meeting taste and appearance goals than would be possible with mandated chlorination procedures.

Historically, chlorine has been accepted as a positive method of protecting drinking water. In 1908 in Chicago and Jersey City, water-borne diseases such as typhoid were prevalent. A serious public health crisis occurred as major U.S. cities were suffering typhoid deaths at a rate exceeding 100 per 100,000 persons per year. Within the next ten years, thousands of drinking water treatment plants initiated chlorine disinfection. The typhoid death rate fell simultaneously.

An outbreak of this dreaded disease never again occurred as a direct result of widespread use of the combined process of chlorination and filtration in drinking water treatments. Today, proper disinfection remains the most important and safe water treatment process.