Health

For the last two years, Robin Daigle has had to boil her tap water before pouring it in ice cube trays.  She boils tap water...

Water utilities initiated emergency action plans, asking hundreds of employees to work from home to limit the virus’ spread and to help protect the workers needed to operate water treatment and delivery systems.

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

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.

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

Wastewater can inform public health departments of new variants in the community, but the data collected is still inconclusive.

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

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.

Scientists fear that eventually the toxic residue of more than a century of agricultural runoff will be blown into the air — and into the lungs of residents.

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.