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North Carolina drinking water

1,953 active community water systems serve 9,547,363 people in North Carolina. 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
1,953
People served
9.5M
Groundwater systems
77%
1,510 systems
Surface water systems
23%
443 systems

Largest community water systems by population served

  1. 1. CHARLOTTE WATER

    CHARLOTTE · PWSID NC0160010

    1.2M served
  2. 2. RALEIGH, CITY OF

    RALEIGH · PWSID NC0392010

    640k served
  3. 3. WINSTON-SALEM, CITY OF

    PFAFFTOWN · PWSID NC0234010

    388k served
  4. 4. DURHAM, CITY OF

    DURHAM · PWSID NC0332010

    322k served
  5. 5. GREENSBORO, CITY OF

    GREENSBORO · PWSID NC0241010

    320k served
  6. 6. CARY, TOWN OF

    CARY · PWSID NC0392020

    224k served
  7. 7. FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC WORKS COMM

    FAYETTEVILLE · PWSID NC0326010

    216k served
  8. 8. CFPUA-WILMINGTON

    WILMINGTON · PWSID NC0465010

    199k served
  9. 9. UNION COUNTY WATER SYSTEM

    MONROE · PWSID NC0190413

    168k served
  10. 10. ASHEVILLE CITY OF

    ASHEVILLE · PWSID NC0111010

    157k 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.

Showing the 60 largest cities by served population. 396 smaller communities also have pages on MyTapWater.us; reach them through the sitemap or via the address lookup.