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WVXU: Digging deep for water quality

Posted at 11:40 AM, Sep 26, 2013
and last updated 2015-11-04 09:27:41-05

Tana Weingartner
WVXU.org

Each day people from Lima to Cincinnati get their drinking water from an underground river known as the Great Miami Buried Valley Aquifer. It encompasses about 136 square miles and contains 1.5 trillion gallons of water.

In fact, 1.6 million people rely on water from the Great Miami Aquifer, including companies like Procter and Gamble and the region's growing number of breweries.

Richard Dube is Vice President of Brewing and Quality for Christian Moerlein and he knows a thing or two about needing water.

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