Americans have clean and safe drinking water because water-supply companies rigorously treat it to adhere to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. While chlorine has long been used ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The Mon River is the water source for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvania American Water customers. Next month, that water will be undergoing a new treatment process involving ...

On the day The Patriot-News editorial "It's OK to drink up" was published (April 8), I was again fielding calls from Vermont citizens who say they are suffering health problems as a result of drinking ...

STOCKTON (CBS13) — Stockton will hold an emergency meeting on its water quality, as at least one laboratory says tests show chloramine levels are higher than federal regulations. The Stockton Water ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say they have identified a previously unknown, potentially toxic chemical called chloronitramide anion in the drinking ...

In his poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote, "Water, water every where, Ne any drop to drink." He was referring to sailors adrift on the high seas ironically dying of ...

Some area residents may soon be drinking water disinfected with chloramine rather than chlorine, as Crescenta Valley Water District officials contemplate switching the method to avoid a detected ...

If your tap water smells a bit like pool water, it's because Melbourne has embarked on its yearly chlorine 'shock' of the ...