GA
GA drinking water
1,717 active community water systems serve 10,576,826 people in GA. Browse the largest utilities, see how groundwater and surface water sources are split, and dig into individual system pages for violations and lead service line status.
At a glance
- Community systems
- 1,717
- People served
- 10.6M
- Groundwater systems
- 86%
- 1,482 systems
- Surface water systems
- 14%
- 235 systems
Largest community water systems by population served
- 1. ATLANTA
ATLANTA · PWSID GA1210001
1.1M served - 2. GWINNETT CO. DEPT. OF WATER RESOURCES
LAWRENCEVILLE · PWSID GA1350004
975k served - 3. DEKALB COUNTY
DECATUR · PWSID GA0890001
743k served - 4. COBB COUNTY
MARIETTA · PWSID GA0670003
695k served - 5. NORTH FULTON COUNTY
ALPHARETTA · PWSID GA1210005
435k served - 6. CLAYTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY
MORROW · PWSID GA0630000
298k served - 7. COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS · PWSID GA2150000
229k served - 8. CHEROKEE COUNTY
CANTON · PWSID GA0570002
224k served - 9. AUGUSTA-RICHMOND CO WS
AUGUSTA · PWSID GA2450000
204k served - 10. HENRY COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY
JACKSON · PWSID GA1510001
187k served
Cities with the most served population
Communities with the largest aggregate population across all community water systems based in that city. Click through for the per-city utility list.
- Atlanta · 1.1M
- Lawrenceville · 975k
- Marietta · 755k
- Decatur · 743k
- Alpharetta · 435k
- Morrow · 298k
- Canton · 242k
- Columbus · 229k
- Jackson · 227k
- Cumming · 223k
- Port Wentworth · 222k
- Augusta · 205k
- Warner Robins · 180k
- Savannah · 144k
- Grovetown · 143k
- Newnan · 141k
- City Of Gainesville · 140k
- Macon · 132k
- Athens · 130k
- Douglasville · 127k
- Dallas · 123k
- Albany · 107k
- Dalton · 99k
- Cartersville · 95k
- Rome · 92k
- Conyers · 89k
- Covington · 89k
- Fayetteville · 87k
- Brunswick · 80k
- Valdosta · 78k
- Carrollton · 77k
- Winder · 69k
- Griffin · 64k
- Ringgold · 59k
- Loganville · 58k
- Calhoun · 53k
- Statesboro · 50k
- Eatonton · 48k
- Jefferson · 46k
- Milledgeville · 44k
- Lagrange · 42k
- Smyrna · 41k
- Flintstone · 37k
- Thomasville · 36k
- Perry · 35k
- Fort Stewart · 35k
- Hinesville · 35k
- Watkinsville · 35k
- Cedartown · 35k
- East Point · 34k
- Waycross · 33k
- Tifton · 32k
- Chatsworth · 29k
- Dawsonville · 29k
- Toccoa · 29k
- Forsyth · 28k
- Blairsville · 27k
- Leesburg · 25k
- Jasper · 25k
- Monroe · 24k
Showing the 60 largest cities by served population. 420 smaller communities also have pages on MyTapWater.us; reach them through the sitemap or via the address lookup.
Community water fluoridation in GA
State- and county-level aggregates from CDC's Water Fluoridation Reporting System. Per-utility fluoridation status is not in the bulk dataset; for a specific system, see the link below.
- Population on fluoridated water (2020)
- 94.9%
- 8,671,136 of 9,135,654 on CWS
- Community systems fluoridating
- 570 of 1,728
- 312 actively adjust fluoride
- Counties with 2020 data
- 159
- State shares per-system data on MWF
Trend over time
- 202094.9%
- 201895.2%
- 201696.2%
Highest fluoridation rate by county
- Fulton100.0%
- DeKalb100.0%
- Muscogee100.0%
- Clayton100.0%
- Houston100.0%
- Paulding100.0%
- Whitfield100.0%
- Floyd100.0%
- Catoosa100.0%
- Walker100.0%
Lowest fluoridation rate by county
- Evans0.0%
- Irwin0.0%
- Webster0.0%
- Echols0.0%
- Taliaferro0.0%
- Effingham7.8%
- Bryan9.0%
- Towns10.6%
- Cook15.0%
- Stewart20.4%
Find your specific utility's status
GA shares per-system fluoridation data on CDC's My Water's Fluoride site. Search by water system to see whether a specific utility adjusts fluoride.