Minnesota Drinking Water Annual Report for 2023

Maintaining an adequate supply of safe drinking water requires attention, investment, and responses to new and ongoing challenges. Sustainable water resources are critical to personal and public health as well as our economy. Protecting water sources, treating water, and testing water after it is treated are part of the multi-barrier approach to assuring an adequate supply of water that is safe to drink.
Communication is also a critical component in this process. Each year since 1995, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has provided citizens and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a report on the status of public drinking water in Minnesota. This report provides both an assessment of how well public water systems are doing at meeting the standards set in the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and insights about current challenges faced by public water suppliers. In addition, community water systems issue reports (called Consumer Confidence Reports) to their residents each year.
The 2023 monitoring results summarized in this report demonstrate the success of Minnesota’s efforts to protect its drinking water. Nearly 98 percent of Minnesotans drinking water from a community public water system received water that met all federal health-based standards throughout the year.