The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have unleashed new concerns over air quality and now, water quality too, with the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) issuing an “Unsafe Water Alert” on ...

Two water departments have advised residents In Los Angeles against drinking tap water due to potential contamination concerns from the ongoing wildfires. The risk of chemicals and pathogens entering ...

A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst found that the majority of at-home testing kits leave homeowners with inconclusive results. Because there are no ...

More than 2.4 million people in North Carolina get their drinking water from private wells, more than in any other state in the country, according to experts at the UNC Chapel Hill. Flooding and other ...

PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam have contaminated drinking water wells in Glocester, Rhode Island. Landfills, military sites, and industrial facilities are common sources of PFAS contamination ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - New landowners or landowners with a new water well often have questions on the quality of their water that they want to use in the home, garden or to water livestock. There can ...

Gabriel Lade received funding from the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct this research.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Author: Gabriel Lade, Macalester College About 23 million U.S. households depend on ...