VA
VA drinking water
1,051 active community water systems serve 7,435,753 people in VA. 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
- 1,051
- People served
- 7.4M
- Groundwater systems
- 64%
- 676 systems
- Surface water systems
- 36%
- 374 systems
Largest community water systems by population served
- 1. FAIRFAX COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY
HERNDON · PWSID VA6059501
1.1M served - 2. VIRGINIA BEACH, CITY OF
VIRGINIA BEACH · PWSID VA3810900
438k served - 3. NEWPORT NEWS, CITY OF
NEWPORT NEWS · PWSID VA3700500
407k served - 4. CHESTERFIELD CO CENTRAL WATER SYSTEM
CHESTERFIELD · PWSID VA4041845
390k served - 5. LOUDOUN WATER - CENTRAL SYSTEM
ASHBURN · PWSID VA6107350
335k served - 6. HENRICO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM
HENRICO · PWSID VA4087125
330k served - 7. NORFOLK, CITY OF
NORFOLK · PWSID VA3710100
234k served - 8. RICHMOND, CITY OF
RICHMOND · PWSID VA4760100
229k served - 9. ARLINGTON COUNTY
ARLINGTON · PWSID VA6013010
215k served - 10. WESTERN VIRGINIA WATER AUTHORITY
ROANOKE · PWSID VA2770900
183k 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.
- Herndon · 1.1M
- Virginia Beach · 459k
- Newport News · 409k
- Chesterfield · 390k
- Ashburn · 335k
- Henrico · 330k
- Woodbridge · 307k
- Hopewell · 301k
- Norfolk · 298k
- Richmond · 233k
- Arlington · 216k
- Chesapeake · 198k
- Roanoke · 195k
- Charlottesville · 139k
- Fredericksburg · 125k
- Stafford · 124k
- Portsmouth · 115k
- Lynchburg · 106k
- Harrisonburg · 84k
- Williamsburg · 77k
- Winchester · 75k
- Rockville · 72k
- Suffolk · 71k
- Leesburg · 69k
- Hanover · 59k
- Abingdon · 48k
- Danville · 43k
- Manassas · 43k
- Petersburg · 42k
- Bedford · 41k
- Verona · 40k
- Fort Belvoir · 39k
- Christiansburg · 36k
- Blacksburg · 35k
- Warrenton · 31k
- Vienna · 30k
- Collinsville · 30k
- Mcincr, Mcb Quantico · 28k
- Salem · 26k
- Staunton · 26k
- Culpeper · 24k
- Waynesboro · 23k
- Wise · 21k
- Bristol · 20k
- Vansant · 20k
- Pulaski · 20k
- Radford · 19k
- Colonial Heights · 18k
- Front Royal · 18k
- Marion · 17k
- Fort Eustis · 17k
- New Kent · 16k
- Lebanon · 16k
- Clintwood · 16k
- North Tazewell · 15k
- Madison Heights · 15k
- Emporia · 15k
- Madison · 15k
- Covington · 15k
- Manassas Park · 14k
Showing the 60 largest cities by served population. 250 smaller communities also have pages on MyTapWater.us; reach them through the sitemap or via the address lookup.
Community water fluoridation in VA
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)
- 95.5%
- 6,713,205 of 7,027,639 on CWS
- Community systems fluoridating
- 588 of 1,181
- 157 actively adjust fluoride
- Counties with 2020 data
- 133
- State shares per-system data on MWF
Trend over time
- 202095.5%
- 201896.3%
- 201696.3%
Highest fluoridation rate by county
- Fairfax County100.0%
- Virginia Beach100.0%
- Henrico100.0%
- Norfolk City100.0%
- Newport News City100.0%
- Richmond City100.0%
- Hampton City100.0%
- Alexandria City100.0%
- Portsmouth City100.0%
- Roanoke City100.0%
Lowest fluoridation rate by county
- Sussex0.0%
- Bath0.0%
- Charlotte0.0%
- Amelia0.0%
- Floyd0.0%
- Cumberland0.0%
- Craig0.0%
- Highland0.0%
- Mathews0.0%
- Rappahannock0.0%
Find your specific utility's status
VA 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.