My name is John Householder, and I am a rising sophomore at St. Mark’s School of Texas located in Dallas. I am 16 years old, and I am very interested in the global water crisis. My interest in water came from a few experiences including:

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• Having to find and purify water during my scout campouts.

• Facing a “boil water notice” while at a volleyball tournament in a big city like Austin.

• Noticing how Dallas’ tap water tastes different during different times of the year making me wonder “is this water safe to drink?”

• Going without water during a winter freeze that broke some pipes in our house and not knowing when our water would be available again causing me to wonder how people go without a reliable source of water elsewhere in the world.

During the summer of 2022, I began researching the water in my home city of Dallas. I got together with a few of my teachers and a couple people who work for my city to enhance my online research about the water in Dallas, more specifically, the supply, demand, and threats to our water supply. I am learning a lot of interesting information and I am very excited to record my experiences and findings while doing this research. For now, I plan on posting here twice monthly.

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I hope you enjoy my journey into learning if the water in Dallas is safe, and if there is enough supply to sustain our city over the next decades to come. I hope it also helps you ponder if the water in your city is safe, and if there is enough to sustain your community for decades to come. And lastly, I hope it raises our collective interests in understanding how to ensure the water is safe in all communities across the globe, and what we can do to help stem the global water crisis by first starting in our local communities.

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