EPA Approves Oklahoma Drinking Water Rule

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the State of Oklahoma’s revised rule for regulating total coliform in drinking water. With this approval, the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has authority to regulate this contaminant in the state’s drinking water systems."Safe drinking water is one of our most valuable public health assets,” says Regional Administrator Ron Curry. “Oklahoma has shown its drinking water program will continue to protect people’s health under the revised rule.”The EPA revised the total coliform rule in 2013 to improve public health protection. Total coliforms are a group of bacteria that, while largely not harmful to humans,