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, ...

Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick is the environmental ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa. — Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick ...

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 ...

Allison Roderick, environmental health officer for Webster County, Iowa, draws a sample of well water from a home near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Roderick sends the samples to a lab to test for bacteria, ...

If you have a private well in Minnesota, there's around a 10% chance the water coming out of your kitchen sink is contaminated. About 1.2 million Minnesotans get their drinking water from a private ...

BOSTON — Included in the fiscal 2025 budget signed into law Monday by Gov. Maura Healey is $100,000 allotted to the state Department of Environmental Protection to create a study to determine how best ...