Consumer Information Sheets

The documents listed below are in PDF format and can be found at this link . 

• Arsenic: What You Need to Know

• Bacteria in Your Water: What You Need to know

• Geothermal Heat Pump Systems: What You Need to Know

• Ground Water Protection: What You Need to Know

• Ground Water Quality: What You Need to Know

• Having a Well Drilled: What You Need to Know

• How to Hire a Water Well Contractor: What You Need to Know

• Hydraulic Fracturing: What You Need to Know
  

• Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S): What You Need to Know

• The Hydrologic Cycle: What You Need to Know

• Iron Bacteria: What You Need to Know

• Is Your Water Safe? What You Need to Know

• MTBE: What You Need to Know

• Nitrates: What You Need to Know

• Private Water Wells and Public Water Systems: What You Need to Know

• Pumping Systems: What You Need to Know

• Radon: What You Need to Know

• Residential Well Cleaning
  

• Sealing Unused Wells: What You Need to Know

• Septic Systems: What You Need to Know

• Trihalomethanes: What You Need to Know

• Water Efficiency: What You Need to Know

• Water Pressure: What You Need to Know

• Water Security: What You Need to Know

• Water Testing and Treatment: What You Need to Know

• Water Well Rehabilitation: What You Need to Know

• Well Caps: What You Need to Know

• Well Construction: What You Need to Know

• Well Definitions: What You Need to Know

• Well Logs: What You Need to Know

• Well System Materials: What You Need to Know

3 - minute Videos

Follow this link to watch the videos:

• Water well stewardship 
• Water testing
• Groundwater protection

Awareness Week Resources

• About groundwater
• Groundwater advocates
• Groundwater stewardship — protection and conservation
• Schedule your annual water well checkup
• Get involved
• Editorial
• Sample news release
• Sample radio spots
• Promotional tools for groundwater professionals
• Promotional partners
• National groundwater use
• States’ groundwater use
• Social media images
• Sustainable groundwater resources