Health

Western states are still able to provide relatively affordable water, but that could change as utilities try to recoup losses associated with the pandemic and begin to pay for the massive repairs and upgrades to their systems that were on the drawing board before COVID-19 struck.

The Colorado health department is investigating a plume causing high levels of forever chemicals in the raw water supply of Adams County.

New Mexico is behind in water inspections for the third year in a row, leaving water quality in question.

Colorado joins three other states in approving a new rule that clears the way for drinking treated wastewater.

Some Colorado residents have been experiencing drinking water contamination for years. When the water will be safe to drink is unknown.

A synthetic chemical’s appearance in public water supply wells raises questions of how to protect the public from unknown health hazards.

These chemicals are everywhere. They last forever. They’re expensive to get rid of. And many Californians don’t even know they’re drinking them.

Refrigerator filters are an attractive target for counterfeiters, who may also be putting consumers at risk by selling filters that are not merely ineffective, but unsafe.

Journalist Heather Hansman floated the Green River to explore water issues in the American West, then wrote a fascinating book about her journey.

Decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water.