Facing the rising prospect of privatization, the remaining public water officials in Philadelphia’s suburbs take pride in holding out and keeping water bills low. North Penn Water Authority executive ...

It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

In 2016, President Obama declared a state of emergency over the contamination of the water system in Flint, Michigan, a poor, majority-black city.1 The crisis was seen as a failure of the government ...

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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Richmond’s public water system was found to be crumbling, broken down and filthy during a 2022 federal inspection, with debris ranging from algae to chemical leaks found ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Several public housing residents have been going on a week now without proper running water. Some blocks in the Eastside Public Housing neighborhood were notified by the ...

Lead was found in water samples from Nickerson Gardens, a public housing project in Watts, as well as other locations in the neighborhood. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) On the heels of an ...

Days after the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visited a Los Angeles public housing project with lead-contaminated water, the agency ordered drinking water systems nationwide ...