When you're in a hurry to boil pasta, make Jell-O, or get the French press going, it might seem harmless (efficient even) to fill your pot with hot water straight from the tap. But using hot tap water ...

Person filling a glass with water from kitchen sink - Asiavision/Getty Images Many people are used to relying on having clean tap water for drinking, cooking, and washing their hands without giving it ...

Over the past few months, clean water has come under the microscope thanks to a slew of research analyzing what’s in the stuff we drink. The latest is a study that has detected a previously ...

May 3 -- Bottled water is the world's fastest growing beverage, but consumers would be better served by simply turning on the tap, asserts an environmental group. Bottlers of water generally ...

For more than four decades, scientists have noticed a mysterious chemical in the treated drinking water of millions of people in the United States, but no one’s been able to pinpoint exactly what it ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Customers of Aqua Illinois complained Monday about the quality of water they receive from the utility and the company’s response to nitrate contamination affecting University Park and other ...