Private wells are especially vulnerable because they are not federally regulated and often go untested, experts say ...

West Virginia officials say they have work to do in assessing the statewide threat of PFAS, a class of industrial chemicals that include compounds linked to cancer. They have touted plans to target ...

Communities serviced by municipal systems can be reasonably confident that the water used for drinking, washing or irrigation contains no elevated levels of toxins or other contaminants. However, ...

More than 40 million Americans get their drinking water not from the public supply but from private sources, and nearly all of them rely on groundwater that could contain a hidden threat: a class of ...

More than 2.5 million Pennsylvania residents rely on private wells for their drinking water. Yet these wells are not regulated, leaving homeowners to their own devices to test and treat their water.

USGS research confirms widespread PFAS contamination in drinking water — including in rural communities and private wells that are almost never tested. Since 2016, the United States Geological Survey ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Massachusetts residents support strengthening drinking water protections for the more than 500,000 residents of the state who use private wells, according to fresh poll results that ...

A bipartisan group of legislators has proposed a bill to require the state Department of Natural Resources to warn county and ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX. THERE IS A LOT WE KNOW ABOUT CANCER, AND THERE IS A LOT WE STILL HAVE TO DISCOVER, INCLUDING THE ALL OF THE REASONS THAT WE MIGHT BE NUMBER TWO IN THE COUNTRY SMOKING, ALCOHOL ...

BRAINERD — Minnesotans with private wells urged to test their drinking water for five common contaminants. In conjunction with National Groundwater Awareness Week, March 10-16, now in its 25th year, ...

Plans to build a connected water and wastewater system serving the Paeonian Springs and Waterford have raised both concerns ...

At the beginning of the year, a private water company approached Ware officials with a proposal: Would it be interested in selling its water system? For decades, Ware provided water to its community ...