Your tap water might deserve a second look — there is a simple, but pricey, way to find out if microplastics are floating ...

When I ask friends and family why they don’t drink tap water in LA, they give the same vague answer: It’s chlorinated, gross and probably unhealthy. For years, that explanation sufficed, so I did what ...

Fifty years ago, Consumer Reports published a groundbreaking investigation into the nation’s drinking water. The report was titled “Is the Water Safe to Drink?” (Download a PDF of this three-part ...

Barnstable County has a new tool for testing the safety of drinking water, and it will make weekend and holiday testing more ...

New York City health officials said water supplies in buildings linked to the outbreak in the Bronx were “unaffected by legionella” without ever testing the water systems, according to city health ...

ASHEVILLE - A reader asks if the city of Asheville tests water supply for microplastics. Should residents boil their drinking water to reduce contaminants? Do you have a question for Answer Man or ...

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — The Navy has determined that hundreds of tap water tests taken at Pearl Harbor in recent months produced false positives for low-level petroleum contamination due to the test’s ...

Bora Pascaline collects a water sample from her kitchen faucet for testing at her home in Lake Ridge Estates in Iowa City on Monday. The water at the mobile home park has tested high for manganese. A ...

A student sits next to a water bottle in the cafeteria at Maureen Joy Charter School in Durham, North Carolina. Walking into the Maureen Joy Charter School building is a little like stepping back in ...