Clean, safe drinking water is something most homeowners take for granted, yet it relies on a delicate balance of pressure, proper plumbing design, and effective safeguards working behind the scenes.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Area sprinklers and lawn irrigation systems return to work as the spring season continues. With homeowners looking to see that their systems are running correctly, they should ...

Few of our community connections are as personal as a shared drinking water supply. That’s why water utility managers ask the public to do their part to make sure home connections prevent harmful ...

Montana Resources paid Butte $1.2 million for last summer's mine water contamination scare in the municipal water system.

Plainview residents must have their backflow system tested by a professional by Dec. 31 as mandated by the New York State Health Department and the Nassau County Health Department, according to the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - INFORMATION FROM THE CITY OF SHREVEPORT: Residential water customers with a lawn irrigation system will soon receive notices about completing ...

Utilities staff with the town of Berthoud discovered Monday that a backflow of untreated water went into the town’s potable water system at a residential connection recently, but after tests they are ...

This article is brought to you by the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans. It's hard to imagine how dirty pool water from a house down the street could end up in one's tap and drinking water.

The Maryville Water & Sewer Department will conduct its annual inspections of residential lawn irrigation system backflow preventers beginning the first week of May. Inspections will begin in the ...

I’ve grown very concerned about the subject of “backflow” systems in Boise, wherein this valve is installed to prevent untreated irrigation water from entering our drinking water. The present system ...

Brett Rathje (front) and Eric Egge (back) look on while Derek Young works on a valve as they try to repair a water main break in Onslow in Jones County in 2014. Rathje, Egge and Young were working for ...