But what contaminated the water collected from taps and wells isn’t immediately evident, the lab run by a group that helps communities struggling with post-Cold War pollution says

SPOKANE, Wash. — Local man Shank Capra piqued the interest of doctors and wellness advocates by reaching typically fatal levels of dehydration... Continue this tale

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Several First Nation organizations say they’re gearing up for the federal government to table legislation...

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PRINCETON, Iowa—From the beginning, the new well was a headache. Late in 2022, an overly powerful pump caused eight months of costly water main breaks in Princeton, a town of nearly 1,000 residents on the banks of the silty Mississippi River. Installing a smaller motor seemed to fix that issue, but revealed a different, all-too-familiar […]

The warning signs were years in the making. And yet, regulators failed to heed the writing on the wall, according to Dean Naujoks. An investigator with the Potomac Riverkeeper Network, Naujoks spent three years documenting what he calls a systemic failure that culminated in dual environmental catastrophes now threatening the health of the entire Potomac […]

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency wants Americans to keep guzzling “forever chemicals” in their water.

The agency offered a formal proposal Monday to repeal Biden-era regulations on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, a.k.a “forever chemicals” because they linger in the environment for hundreds or even thousands of years.

If finalized, the proposal would…

Two lawsuits filed over the past week allege the drinking water systems that serve more than a quarter of a million Willamette Valley residents are being harmed by a federal agency that says it’s trying to help threatened fish.

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Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Sarah Mattalian is a 2025 Reporting Fellow. The heavy downpours that bring roughly 90 inches of rainfall to Las Marías, Puerto Rico, each year subside in the first few weeks of December, the start of the dry season. Even as the rainfall decreases, rain still […]

Julie Zahringer hears a common refrain at her environmental laboratory in Alamosa, Colorado: A customer has been drinking well water on family land where they’ve lived for years, but recently noticed it has changed. They want to know why. “All of a sudden it looks different, tastes different, there’s odor, there’s color,” said Zahringer. Zahringer’s […]

BETHESDA, Md. — Local conservationist Martin Sinclair vowed to stop drinking water in order to offset the environmental impact of his constant... Read the full masterpiece

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A new analysis suggests the EPA’s limits are too high to prevent nitrate-related cancer, thyroid disease and birth defects.

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Close to 20 percent of Americans are exposed to water polluted with high levels of potentially cancer-causing nitrates, known to come mostly from agricultural runoff, according to new research published this month. In a first-ever review of nitrate levels in public water systems across the country, the Environmental Working Group found that 6,114 of them—from […]

This story was published in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations. No modern American city has ever run out of water. But chances are rising that Corpus Christi, Texas, could be the first. Absent a biblical rainfall event, its reservoirs are on track to completely dry up by next […]

Municipal water system leaders and nonprofits gathered in Washington, D.C., to lobby Congress as part of Water Week 2026 focused on two priorities: securing funding to update aging water infrastructure and restoring a federal program that provides grants to low-income households for paying water and wastewater bills. Water Week, an annual event organized by the […]

This four-block project is just the start of what is projected to be a $200 million plan to replace 13,000 water lines in Cicero.

The latest Green Drop report shows how the country’s rivers are being “turned into sewage channels”

The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water improvements are marginal and non-revenue water losses remain high in multiple provinces, highlighting urgent need for municipal investment and reform

Thousands of households in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir, are facing inadequate drinking water supply despite an installed capacity of 29.71 MGD. Infrastructure gaps and incomplete schemes are identified as primary reasons for the shortfall.

The Allegheny Front covers the environment in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Sign up for their newsletter here. Listen to the radio version of the piece below. Stacey Greer started filling and dating gallon-sized jugs with tap water last summer, when her village of Cadiz, Ohio, just over an hour west of Pittsburgh, issued a boil […]

DURHAM, N.C.—Brenntag Mid-South continues to amass serious environmental violations related to its chemical repackaging plant in East Durham, where state inspectors cited the company in November for failing to clean up leaking barrels on the property. Recent testing also shows a chemical cocktail continues to enter a neighborhood stream that runs behind an elementary school, […]

In a new report that outlines a dozen high-risk pollutants given new life thanks to weakened, delayed or rescinded regulations, the Environmental Protection Network, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency staff, warns that the EPA under President Donald Trump has abandoned the agency’s core mission of protecting people and the […]

The water coming from your faucet may taste slightly saltier than usual in the coming weeks, as salt used on roads and sidewalks during the recent snowstorm washes into waterways and make its way into the drinking water supply, the WSSC says.