KDHE secretary making push for emphasis on quality of Kansas drinking water

The top environmental and health official in the administration of Gov. Laura Kelly said understandable public attention on sustaining sufficient quantities of water in the agriculture-heavy state led to lack of focus on the quality of drinking water.

“One of the things that gets all the attention is water quantity, but I think we can’t turn a blind eye to water quality,” said Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. “We don’t want a Flint, Michigan, in Kansas.”