Climate Change Threatens New York City's Vaunted Tap Water. By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Bloomberg, July 7, 2008. "New York City's tap water, so pure residents swear it tastes better than bottled, may become a casualty of climate change as warmer temperatures threaten to spoil the mountain reservoirs supplying 9 million people. Water from the largest unfiltered delivery system in the U.S. may become dirtier as weather patterns shift, bringing stronger storms to the region, the city's Department of Environmental Protection said in a May report. Heavy rains muddy reservoirs and wash in bacteria and parasites. That may force New York to spend $10 billion on filtration, the DEP said. 'Intense storms affect the quality of our water,' said DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd in an interview last week. 'Our system is already experiencing very real effects of climate change.'"
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