A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland have reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used to ...

New federal drinking water standards, which the Environmental Protection Agency will implement on June 25, could save thousands of lives across the Midwest and drastically curtail Americans’ exposure ...

SACRAMENTO – Tap water tasting or smelling a little different recently? The City of Sacramento says it's probably nothing to worry about. City of Sacramento Utilities staff say around this time of ...

A pipette delivers a clear liquid to a brown solution in a vial held by a clamp. A new water-soluble pyrimidone absorbs ultraviolet light and stores energy in its chemical bonds. Adding acid to the ...

We can use our nanoparticles to measure water or soil polluted with a toxic contaminant, feed the data into the algorithms, and the machine will find the most important features and match them to a ...

Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling in it, a new study suggests. Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be ...

Pennsylvania has joined a list of growing states setting drinking water standards for a toxic chemical known as PFAS. The EPA has yet to propose nationwide limits. File photo: A number of projects are ...

Scientists discovered that crops exposed to trace pharmaceuticals in recycled water mostly stash the compounds in their leaves—not the parts we usually eat.

EASTON, Pa. - The dry air in our region might be causing drinking water in Easton to have an odd smell. The city's water authority says the odor is coming from naturally occurring compounds in the ...

A study by RTI International found beers brewed in places where the municipal water supply has known PFAS contamination also tend to have detectable PFAS in the beer. The study did not name beers or ...