A team of researchers developed an accessible, handheld water-testing system that was tested through a citizen science ...

Lead contamination in municipal water sources is a consistent threat to public health. Ingesting even tiny amounts of lead ...

Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse officials plan to replace 2,400 lead pipes next year that carry drinking water from water mains into individual homes. Those connector pipes -- called service lines ...

Beyond the immediate public-health goal of decisively purging lead pipes from drinking-water systems nationwide, the president told the crowd on Tuesday that the labor-intensive work involved ...

The rule is the strongest overhaul of lead-in-water standards in roughly three decades. Biden and Harris believe it’s “a moral imperative” to ensure that everyone has access to clean ...

The City of Perrysburg has begun identifying lead service lines throughout the area. A lead service line means that a portion ...

Lead is a heavy metal that was widely used in paint, gasoline, plumbing, and construction until the 1970s. While we’ve ...

In the U.S., the use of lead pipes for new drinking water service systems was outlawed in 1986. However, the EPA estimates there are about 9.2 million lead service lines remaining in the U.S. That ...

Lead pipes can corrode and contaminate drinking water, putting residents at risk of lead exposure when they drink or cook. “These are old pipes, and so if they start to corrode, or if the water ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Folks in cities across North Carolina are getting letters in the mail and those letters are causing a panic. The letters contain verbiage like: "important information about ...

Scott O'Hara was confused when he first opened a letter from the Philadelphia Water ... pipe that connects your home to the water main. It's the latest move in an effort to eliminate lead from ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is trying to determine if lead from public water pipes is tainting tap water in people’s homes at locations across the nation. If so, action must be ...