West Virginia officials say they have work to do in assessing the statewide threat of PFAS, a class of industrial chemicals that include compounds linked to cancer. They have touted plans to target ...

More than 40 million Americans get their drinking water not from the public supply but from private sources, and nearly all of them rely on groundwater that could contain a hidden threat: a class of ...

Communities serviced by municipal systems can be reasonably confident that the water used for drinking, washing or irrigation contains no elevated levels of toxins or other contaminants. However, ...

A proposed bill would warn Wisconsinites with private wells when their groundwater tests for high levels of contaminants, ...

KCCI EIGHT NEWS AT SIX. THERE IS A LOT WE KNOW ABOUT CANCER, AND THERE IS A LOT WE STILL HAVE TO DISCOVER, INCLUDING THE ALL OF THE REASONS THAT WE MIGHT BE NUMBER TWO IN THE COUNTRY SMOKING, ALCOHOL ...

More than 2.5 million Pennsylvania residents rely on private wells for their drinking water. Yet these wells are not regulated, leaving homeowners to their own devices to test and treat their water.

BOSTON (SHNS) – Massachusetts residents support strengthening drinking water protections for the more than 500,000 residents of the state who use private wells, according to fresh poll results that ...

BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — An update on contaminated water in Columbia County: 28/22 News first reported about “Forever Chemicals” detected in private well water in March. The water has ...

BRAINERD — Minnesotans with private wells urged to test their drinking water for five common contaminants. In conjunction with National Groundwater Awareness Week, March 10-16, now in its 25th year, ...

BRAINERD — Minnesota Department of Health is providing free test kits for people who have had their private wells flooded, Crow Wing County reported. Test kits are available to residents who have a ...

At the beginning of the year, a private water company approached Ware officials with a proposal: Would it be interested in selling its water system? For decades, Ware provided water to its community ...