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.

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 ...

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, ...

Over the past year, Mower County’s Soil & Water Conservation District partnered with Mower County Health & Human Services to ...

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 ...

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 properly constructed and maintained water well can provide many years of trouble-free service, but over time, wells can deteriorate or become damaged, allowing surface contaminants to enter the ...

Bill Wachur thought he was just being cautious when he decided to test his well water for PFAS. His home in Stow, Massachusetts, was nowhere near the town's old fire station or the former mill — sites ...

Lewis and Clark Public Health is offering free arsenic and uranium testing for private water wells in the Helena area.

Officials in West Baltimore, Maryland, recently issued an advisory after E. coli bacteria was detected in public water systems after routine water testing. While officials perform routine tests on ...

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, ...