Thursday, September 25, 2008

City of the Day - Austin, TX

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County. Situated in Central Texas, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States of America, as well as the third fastest growing large city in the nation from 2000 to 2006. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, Austin has a population of 743,074. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Greater Austin metropolitan area with a population of about 1.6 million people.

You can find information on the water company here.

You can see a listing of local churches here.

Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2003 shows that customers of City of Austin Water & Wastewater drank water containing up to 15 pollutants. City of Austin Water & Wastewater is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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