Alberta Health Services issued a water advisory Wednesday for the hamlet of Fawcett because of higher than acceptable concentrations of nitrate found in the water system.
Pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants under six months living in Fawcett should stop drinking tap water until further notice, a news release says...
SMITHFIELD -- Smithfield's water system is contaminated with potentially deadly E. Coli bacteria, according to test results released Wednesday afternoon, prompting town officials to order residents and businesses to boil water before using it.
While city crews work on restoring local water service, the N.C. Division of Environmental Health advises some customers to boil all water used for human consumption, including drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, making ice and washing hands.
The state Department of Health and the Green Tank Irrigation District 11 advise residents served by Green Tank to boil their tap water or buy bottled water until further notice. Potentially harmful bacteria have been detected in the water system...
Dozens of elementary students in a New York City elementary school were sent to the hospital Tuesday after drinking contaminated water....The school, which enrolls about 1,300 children from pre-kindergarten to the fifth grade, provided water bottles to students after shutting off the water supply, and had reopened...
Residents in a rural central Wyoming community who suspect a drilling technique contaminated their wells can expect to hear from federal officials in July on whether their water might be dangerous to drink, officials said Tuesday.
Pavillion-area residents, who say their water smells and has become discolored...
Some people in Montgomery County have watched the years roll by as they wait for clean water.
They say the state is dragging its feet when it comes to fixing a problem with nearly four dozen wells found to be contaminated with chemicals.
Federal and local political leaders, D.C. parents and health advocates reacted Thursday with a mixture of anger and fear to news that a federal agency misled them about the harm that lead in the District's water had caused -- and might still be causing...
Do you know what is in your drinking water? A study by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor may have you thinking twice the next time you fill up that glass of tap water. Larry McKay, an earth and planetary sciences professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, sampled eight community water supply sources in East Tennessee and found concentrations of viruses and bacteria linked to human feces that could potentially cause waterborne disease.
Mexico has become the world's top drinker of bottled water in per capita terms due to public fears of pollution in regular water supply, said a marketing firm's report released on Monday.
The community of Walkerton, population less than 5,000 at the time, saw 2,300 people fall ill, and seven die, after breakdowns in the local water system. The region's public health officer later said the catastrophe was probably preventable
The water supply of more than 2 million Californians has been exposed to harmful levels of nitrates over the past 15 years -- a period marked by lax regulatory efforts to contain the colorless and odorless contaminant, a California Watch investigation has found.