The issue focused on the procedure used by the Water Resources Department to determine which water supplies were feasible to use during emergencies, although not all testing laboratories that use water samples were qualified to analyze samples sent to them for testing. In some cases, the laboratories were not certified to do so, allowing samples that did not have the requirements for a government-ordered analysis to be sent to a privately contracted lab to be processed, where samples would have to be analyzed by other laboratories.


Water supply testing laboratories reported the following