Health

Renee Hoffman was never thrilled about the water quality at her house in Sleepy Bear Mobile Home Park on the outskirts of Steamboat Springs. “It just didn’t taste great,” she...

LONESOME LAKE, WYOMING—Whit Coleman belly flopped with style into some of Wyoming’s most famous alpine waters on a summer day. Out on a father-son backpacking trip with friends, the Salt...

People are fighting against disinfectants in their drinking water that cause rashes, breathing problems and more.

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

Grand County officials are searching for ways to prevent harmful algae blooms and weed growth in Grand Lake.

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.

Residents of a mobile home park in Edwards say their well water tastes, looks and smells bad.

On an early morning, a quiet Denver neighborhood was temporarily transformed into a construction zone. A boring machine on the road outside someone’s home pointed a long, thin drill...

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.

Two non-profit groups in Crested Butte work to clean up waters still polluted from the Keystone and Standard mines.