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United States Public Health Service sets first water standards.

1914

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The Public Health Service sets their first standards for the allowable bacteriological quantity in drinking water. These standards are only set for international carriers such as ships, not for public households. Between 1925 and and the passage of the Safe Water Drinking Act in 1974, these standards will become more refined and applied more broadly.