The city normally uses chloramine to disinfect water but for the next month only chlorine will be used. Users might notice a ...

The team of scientists created a similar condition to the water running through pipes to study how water reacts to stagnancy.

Beneath the streets of America’s Finest City, are nearly 2,000 miles of asbestos concrete pipes carrying drinking water to thousands of homes. “That is shocking and that blows my mind,” said ...

Beyond the immediate public-health goal of decisively purging lead pipes from drinking-water systems nationwide, the president told the crowd on Tuesday that the labor-intensive work involved ...

“We know that over 9 million legacy lead pipes continue to deliver water to homes across our country. But the science has been clear for decades: There is no safe level of lead in our drinking ...

The EPA estimates that 9.2 million service lines that deliver drinking water to U.S. homes and businesses are made of lead. The federal government considers replacing these lead pipes a top ...

As water utilities mobilize to replace millions of lead pipes across the country, they are sometimes choosing plastic, which some advocates worry can pose its own risks to drinking water.

But a crisis in Flint, Michigan in 2014 that drew nationwide attention showed that under certain conditions, when lead pipes corrode, they can contaminate drinking water. Older water systems ...

If so, action must be taken to alert people of the threat, with the goal to replace the pipes. But the city of Columbia, which operates one of the state’s largest drinking water systems ...

In some cases, we have advised state and local officials from afar. Fires can make drinking water, and the water pipes and tanks themselves, unsafe. This occurs for a number of reasons.

or soldering used to connect otherwise lead-free pipes. According to the EPA, testing your drinking water from the tap is the only way to know for sure if there is lead contamination flowing ...

An estimated 30% of pipes delivering water to New York City buildings may have lead – and now there’s a map to help determine if your building is affected. The New York League of Conservation ...