Entries Tagged Flint Water Crisis

Robert Kaplan, the EPA’s interim Region 5 director, says Flint, Michigan’s water plant should never have gotten the approval to operate.“No reasonable...

Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from...

The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave Alaska a C-minus on its infrastructure report card after getting a failing grade on...

Post-storm flooding and damage at the West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle has caused the plant to operate at half capacity, and...

A new study from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) shows that human consumption could deplete groundwater aquifers in California’s Central Valley, Tulare...

Since the Flint water crisis came to light in the spring of 2014, concerns over elevated lead levels in drinking water have...

The community of Southwest Harbor, Maine, recently had a fire truck pumping its drinking water through the system after a pump failure.Firefighters...

A 31-year-old man died Oct. 26 after becoming trapped in a tank at the Coney Island Wastewater Treatment plant in Sheepshead Bay,...

In Rio de Janeiro, a successful trip to the 2016 Olympics means more than a medal for those competing in water sports....

The fallout from water contamination in Flint will persist for years — in politics, in lawsuits, in monitoring of children’s health, in...

The massive Canadian wildfire near Fort McMurray, Alberta, that burned more than 565,000 acres this past week forced the city to implement...

“I saw it on the news, and I just needed to do something.”That’s what New Englander Ken Hinson said when he watched...

A wildlife rescue has a happy ending, thanks to two county wastewater system employees. The duo recently discovered a disabled snowy owl in...

Police are investigating some of Rio de Janeiro’s largest wastewater treatment plants to determine if the facilities are actually treating sewage.In a...