Public health

Is your drinking water safe? Here’s how you can find out

America’s drinking water infrastructure is aging and in serious need of modernization. Pipes are overdue for replacement, and water and…

7 years ago

What Nashville’s Metro Schools Isn’t Telling You About Lead In Water

NASHVILLE, Tennessee — There's a lot that Metro Schools isn't revealing in its Friday-night "news dump" about its testing for…

7 years ago

What About Lead?

Since 2014, and the crisis that rocked the community of Flint, Mich., lead in drinking water has been a topic…

7 years ago

Accused: Veteran’s Administration medical center, of dirty water conditions

HOUSTON – A former employee of the Veteran’s Administration’s Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center in Houston, alleges there are unsanitary…

7 years ago

Getting to clean water: Complex problem, no easy solutions

photo: Friends of the Mississippi River executive director Whitney Clark pours water from the Mississippi River into a tube used…

7 years ago

New Mexico communities struggle to deliver water free of uranium

SANTA CRUZ — Eloy Jacquez lives in the house his parents built on Los Lujans Road in 1948. There was…

7 years ago

Sewage pipe from Mexico ruptures, contaminating Arizona water

Gov. Doug Ducey declares state of emergency after E. coli found in pipes along border RIO RICO — A wash…

7 years ago

New data shows toxic chemicals in NYC tap water

Photograph: Courtesy CC/Wikimedia Commons/ Darwin Bell New York City praises the quality of its tap water as "world-renowned," but a…

7 years ago

Talking Toilets With Matt Damon

The actor is on a mission to bring sanitation and safe water to the entire planet. Photograph by PARI DUKOVIC…

7 years ago

Wisconsin Farm Group Admits Tainting Drinking Water, Keeps Failing Residents

What if your neighbor poured toxic chemicals into your drinking water but only agreed to pay for part of the…

7 years ago