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Now that’s what we call water quality

Then and now, the work to protect our drinking water never stops.

If you live in the Denver Water service area, your water’s journey starts as mountain snowpack and ends up as clean, safe, great-tasting water delivered right to your tap.

That’s no accident.

Providing clean, safe, great-tasting water all year round is our mission, and water quality experts have been doing their part in Denver for more than a century.

An old historical photo of the McPhee water quality laboratory. — Employees hard at work in the water quality lab of the Denver Union Water Company in 1896. Photo credit: Denver Water.

The photo above was taken in the water quality lab of the Denver Union Water Company in 1896 — 130 years ago!

These days, Denver Water every year collects more than 50,000 water samples and conducts more than 110,000 water quality tests to confirm that your drinking water is safe, reliable and always great-tasting. That works out to about five tests an hour!

Check out the newest digs for our water quality experts in this TAP story.

Denver Water's new water quality laboratory, seen in the image below, is in the Hydro building on Colorado State University's Spur campus at the National Western Center.

And check out these water quality frequently asked questions to learn more about how Denver Water keeps the high-quality H2O flowing day in and day out.

A woman in a laboratory. — A water quality technician at work in Denver Water's new laboratory at the Hydro building at the CSU Spur campus at the National Western Center. Photo credit: Colorado State University.