Salem tap water could be safe for everyone after another day, said city officials Friday. There's no guarantee, because toxin…
After city testing found high lead levels in the tap water in her Chicago home, Jenny Abrahamian decided to install…
Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department…
LeeAnne Walters, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was key in exposing the crisis of lead-laced water in Flint,…
Water upgrades (Cheryl Corley/NPR) A severe amount of poisonous lead was located in the water of nearly 70% of Chicago…
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Key facts In 2015, 71% of the global population (5.2 billion people) used a safely managed drinking-water service – that…
Data shows high levels of radioactivity at 11 of 18 plants Today is the deadline for coal-fired power plants to…
Illustration by Lisa Lee Lucas for Heavy A yearlong investigation by Heavy found that privatized water management has been a…
New research shows that pharmaceutical drugs are not being filtered out of our water systems. Image: Reuters/Srdjan Zivulovic Wastewater treatment…