Water Education

The contamination of U.S. drinking water with man-made “forever chemicals” is far worse than previously estimated with some of the highest levels found in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, said a report on Wednesday by an environmental watchdog group. “Forever”...

Our Tap Water Database has information from nearly 50,000 local utilities in every state – information about everything their tests found in your community’s drinking water. We don’t just tell you what they found. We tell you what it means: How the chemicals in your...

Find out how students can share their ideas as TED Talks here: http://bit.ly/2RCMFgM View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/are-we-running-out-of-clean-water-balsher-singh-sidhu Despite water covering 71% of the planet’s surface, more than half the world’s...

It’s not just Flint, Michigan. Bad water is more widespread than you think. Aging infrastructure is leaving thousands of rural communities vulnerable to contamination with no fix in sight. CNN travels to two of them. Virginia Tech engineering Professor Marc Edwards...

It's the age-old question: Is the glass half empty, or half full? For the people of Flint Michigan, it's far from being a settled issue. Some three years after the city's water crisis first made headlines, many people still don't believe their tap water is safe....

While Flint made headlines two years ago when 12 people died due to high lead levels in the city's water, more than 1,000 water systems across the US have drinking water that fails safety standards for lead. For the BBC's America First? series, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool...