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Officials from the St. Louis Metropolitan Sewer District confirmed a flood-damaged wastewater treatment plant in Fenton, Missouri, will remain offline until at...

Edward O’Rourke, 60, was sentenced to three years in a state prison for submitting false water purity information to the New Jersey...

A small-system water operator in Sebring, Ohio, has denied misleading the public about unsafe lead levels in the town’s drinking water. According...

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has set new phosphorus limits for two plants that discharge into the Great Miami River. The new...

An employee at Water Rescue Services near Midland, Texas, died in a chemical explosion on Monday, Jan. 4. Authorities reported that the...

Small-business owners who made a substantial equipment investment in 2015 can head into the new year knowing they will be able to...

A water crisis in Flint, Michigan, hit an alarming level this week as Mayor Karen W. Weaver declared a state of emergency,...

Dog hair, chewing tobacco and contaminated samples were just a few of the problems identified during a Washington Department of Labor &...

Thomas Braithwaite, a water operator in Brigham City, Utah, usually checks the Mantua Reservoir at 6 a.m. on his daily route. Not...

Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA), which serves western San Bernadino County in Southern California, is undertaking what it calls a “landmark water-energy...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has finalized a consent order that requires Nice-Pak Products to stop advertising that its moist tissue and...

A contract worker at the Piscataway Wastewater Treatment Plant near Accokeek, Maryland, was rescued Nov. 17 after falling 24 feet from scaffolding...

Lightning hit a wastewater treatment facility in Harvard, Massachusetts, on Nov. 12, causing about $100,000 in damages. The strike traveled through the...

The Saunders County Sheriff’s Office in Yutan, Nebraska, recovered a body from a lagoon at the Yutan Wastewater Treatment Plant on Thursday,...