What is Proposition 65?

Proposition 65 requires businesses to provide warnings to California residents about significant exposures to chemicals that may cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. These chemicals can be in the products that California residents purchase, in their homes or workplaces, or that are released into the environment. By requiring that this information be provided, Proposition 65 enables California residents to make informed decisions about their exposures to these chemicals.

Proposition 65 requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. This list was first published in 1987, and must be updated at least once a year. It now includes over 900 chemicals.

Why does Waterworks include this warning with their products?

We are providing Prop 65 warnings to inform customers that specific products contain chemicals on the State of California’s Prop 65 list.

Are Waterworks’ products safe to use?

Even though a product may be found to contain a Proposition 65-listed chemical, it does not mean that use of the product will cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Nor does it mean that a product is unsafe. All Waterworks’ products meet or exceed the requirements of applicable industry standards for product performance and safety, as well as the federal Safe Drinking Water Act. We are confident there is no health hazard associated with any of Waterworks’ products.