Science news articles about 'public water supply'

Corruption is rife throughout water industries worldwide, forcing the poor to pay more for basic drinking water and sanitation services, a new report says.

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there is no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the United States.

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there is no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the United States.

Low levels of certain man-made chemicals remain in public water supplies after being treated in selected community water facilities. Water from nine selected rivers, used as a source for public water ...

... to mitigate environmental impacts like subsidence and flooding, there is a growing need for better purification processes to keep contaminants found in surface water sources out of the public tap.

... the Little River near an intake at a public water supply plant. The research was funded by UT's ... bacterial or viral enteric pathogens. Many public water supply operations have monitored total coliform ...

... 13 million Americans whose public water supply contains more than the U.S. Environmental Protection ... P.H., M.S., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, in an accompanying editorial. "This must ...

... rivers. Among these are changes to species habitats and the potential threats to both public water supplies for Eugene-Springfield and the levels of water required for generating electricity to meet ...