Massachusetts. Division of Industrial Waster Water Management.

State oversight of public drinking water supplies and systems has been exercised successively by the following agencies: State Board of Health (1869-1914); State Department of Health, Lunacy and Charity (1879-1886);State Board of Health (1886-1914); State Department of Health (1914-1919); Department of Public Health (1919-1974), specifically its Division of Sanitary Engineering (1945-1950), and then its Bureau of Environmental Sanitation. The bureau was transferred to the Department of Quality Engineering in 1974 (renamed Department of Environmental Protection in 1989). Departmental reorganization has since assigned the water supply function to the Division of Water Supply within the Bureau of Resources Protection.