Water quality issues in Fairbanks

As you know I live without running water. Our house had a well but due to the swampy ground we live on the water in the well was contaminated and completely orange. Then the pipes broke. So we shut it down. Went back to basics. 
Water is not only a personal issue for us, it is a community issue for Fairbanks and perhaps you can go as far as to say it is a national problem for the U.S. Good water is hard to get in Fairbanks. The general U.S. guidelines for water for consumption are not as strict as in Europe.  A friend told me that five times as much lead is allowed in U.S. drinking water as in European water.
In Fairbanks we go to the water wagon to fill up our water jugs. The water is fairly hard and has a distinct smell of chlorine when you first pour it. There is no public information on what the water contains. You can go to the "natural" spring in Fox to get water, but I have heard that during break-up all of the melting water from the hill next to the well (next to the highway) goes directly into it filled with who-knows-what from the highway. I write "natural" because the Fox spring had to shut down a month ago because it stopped working and a contractor fixed it by replacing the pump and cleaning out the well; chlorinating and disinfecting it (Fox well article), which to me doesn't scream natural.
Then there is the water on the university campus. It has the strangest metallic taste and pretty much all faculty departments order filtered water from outside the university. Only students are left to drink this strange-tasting water and many also shower in it including me. My hair always has a rougher texture from showering on campus than showering elsewhere. I try not to think too much about this when I don't have other options. 
You can buy filtered water, but you have to pay big money for it and it is only offered by a small business in town. 
It's weird. We are surrounded by nature. We have plenty of rivers and lakes. But the access to water and the quality of water is terrible. To be fair all natural waters are frozen for half the year, but still. It seems like we should have better standards at this point. Oh well. Life is rough in the North. We are in many ways a Frontier society and still live on the standards as such. Here is a photo of a lake we passed on our way from Seattle this summer: