/°s\ ' O 'i How's My Waterway? https://mywaterway.epa.gov Informing the conversation about your waters Use How's My Waterway to learn about your water, explore data, and find out what's happening in your community — anywhere, anytime. How's My Waterway provides the public with an easily accessible and understandable picture of water quality at a community, state, or national scale. Map-centric and mobile-friendly, How's My Waterway works on all different screen sizes ranging from desktop computers and tablets to mobile phones. What will I find? National: Learn about the quality of water resources across the nation (lakes, rivers and streams, wetlands and coastal areas) and the main challenges to water resources nationwide. You will also find information about national drinking water quality and national drinking water metrics. Aquatic Life Swimming Drinking Water Eating Fish Community: Learn about the health of your waters, identified issues, why the issues matter, and what's being done to restore or protect the waters. Find out more about your drinking water. Discover if waters in your community are suitable for swimming or eating fish and if they support aquatic life. State Choose a state to find basic facts about a state's waters, summaries of specific water assessments, a statewide survey of water quality where available, and state drinking water metrics. QUESTIONS? Contact: mywaterway@epa.gov READY TO EXPLORE? https://mywaterway.epa.gov ------- With How's My Waterway you can explore waters at the community, state, and national levels. Let's get started! Select your state or territory from the drop down to begin exploring water quality. Tennessee State Water Quality Overview 4 Tennessee Water Quality Choose a Topic: !®l Swimming Eating Fish m n Aquatic Life Drinking Water O Pick your Water Type and Use: Water Type: Use: Lakes and Reservoirs Recreation Assessed Lakes and Reservoirs that support Recreation Targeted monitoring provides information on water quality problems for the subset of those waters that were assessed. God J Impaired ¦ 200,976 acres Insufficient Info 0 acres Year Last Reported: 2020 Explore National Water Quality EPA, states, and tribes survey a representative sample of our nation's waters to provide an accurate snapshot of water quality, and track changes over time. Excess nutrients in waterways continue to be an issue Excess Nutrients in Waterways (opens new browser tab) is one of America's most widespread water quality issues. While nutrients are important, too much of a good thing can become a bad thing. Excess nutrients can lead to excessive algae growth, which can use up oxygen that aquatic organisms , _ need to survive. Too much algae growth can cause fish to die. Learn more about what EPA is doing to reduce excess nutrients in waterways (opens new browser tab). s Learn about the health of our waters 28% of our riversand healthy1 r ana stream referem streams have excess compared to the best 75 compared to the worst 5% of the least-disturbed rive st 75% of the least-dis Learn more about waterbody types Scan the QR Code using your smartphone's camera app or your preferred search app. https://mywaterway.epa.gov ------- |