Americans have clean and safe drinking water because water-supply companies rigorously treat it to adhere to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. While chlorine has long been used ...

Water treatment facilities always add a little chlorine to the water supply to ensure that dangerous microbes don’t grow and get us all sick, but in the last few decades this practice has been ...

Water systems across the country are changing the way they disinfect drinking water because the traditional disinfectant, chlorine, can leave behind toxic chemicals. But alternatives to chlorine are ...

Q: There's been talk about local water suppliers treating water with chloramine instead of chlorine. The proponents of this process seem to say there is little detrimental effect. But I read on one ...

The town recently began using a secondary — and controversial — disinfectant called chloramine, which adds ammonia to chlorine, to treat its 94 miles of water lines, including for Charlton customers, ...

Chloramine can cause rubber parts in plumbing systems to deteriorate, sometimes leaving an oily residue in tubs or sinks. It's not a major problem and hasn't been well publicized. The San Francisco ...

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are ...

And while they’re suffering headaches, itchy skin and sleeping problems, they say it’s even worse for pet fish going belly up in their tanks and ponds. Yankalilla, Normanville and Carrickalinga ...