Experts say drinking water disinfection is essential, but current methods may expose people to potentially harmful compounds. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of ...

Nearly 7 percent of Americans may be exposed to hazardous levels of “forever chemicals” through treated municipal wastewater, a new study has found. These approximately 23 million people may be ...

Tap water for about 1 in 3 Americans could contain a byproduct from the decontamination process that may be toxic, according to a study published Thursday. For over a century, public water systems ...

Xiaowei Teng, a professor at WPI, will partner with a professor at the University of Alabama to conduct the study, which will investigate the use of battery electrodes to selectively remove ...

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are ...

GROVELAND — The Groveland Water and Sewer Department recently shared it will be launching a drinking water treatment pilot study as the first step in the town’s water treatment plant project. The ...

A 20-year project in Bangladesh reveals that lowering arsenic levels in drinking water can slash death rates from major chronic diseases. Participants who switched to safer wells had the same risk ...

Decatur Utilities will commence Phase 2 of a water treatment study targeting industrial contaminants known as "forever chemicals" by the end of the year after the Decatur City Council this week ...

RAPIDS CITY — Rapids City trustees learned this week that the waste water treatment facilities study will soon be underway. The project will study inflows to the sewer system, and identify problem ...

Even low levels of arsenic in U.S. public drinking water may increase the risk of below average birth weight and other adverse birth outcomes, says a new national study led by researchers at Columbia ...