About 75 percent of Indianapolis' drinking water comes from rivers and streams; the rest is from ground water. Dr. Lenora Tedesco the Director of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Indiana University Purdue University says access to clean water is a future concern we should start address now.

With society in general more aware of the fragile state of our environment... it's helped Indianapolis "sell" the wastewater rehab project to residents who will be paying the bill planners and engineers are more aware too... as they coordinate to shore-up the infrastructure.

Most of us don't think much about having clean water - it's there everyday on demand ..as much as we want or need. It's vital to our public health and economic development. Yet there are warnings about our recreational use of Central Indiana's White River... something called combined sewer...