I think there is a difference between a right to safe drinking water and a right to provided water which is safe. The government cannot have a responsibility t

I think there is a difference between a right to safe drinking water and a right to provided water which is safe. The government cannot have a responsibility to provide every person with water, since some people will choose to live in places which are incompatible with that mandate. But if the government does provide water, it must be clean. It’s just the government holding itself to its own standard —— if my bottle of Pepsi turned out to have lead in it, the EPA would go to the ends of the earth to pull every bottle from the shelf until the company fixes it. We should expect nothing less from the water in our pipes.