A national security segment revealed how hackers infiltrated the local utility network as part of a wider Chinese operation.

Shane Pepe knows exactly how his town's drinking water came to be polluted with the "forever chemicals" it recently reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The borough manager in Emmaus, ...

Water treatment workers are grappling with how to protect against a new threat: hackers burrowing into the system and ...

Like many towns in western North Carolina, Beech Mountain was heavily damaged by Hurricane Helene in the fall of 2024.

After years of uncertainty and relying on bottled water, residents in the small rural community of Robbins are finally seeing progress toward a permanent solution for safe, clean drinking water.

Editor’s note: An earlier version of this article did not clearly state that Oakdale Irrigation District owns and maintains the river pump. Knights Ferry has a major drinking water problem in its ...

The water tower in Camp Hill, Alabama is seen beyond a crumbling facade along the town's main street. Town leaders say water rates have risen exorbitantly and inexplicably in recent years, as the ...

During the summer of 1978, in the small coastal town of Neskowin, Oregon, residents started falling sick. Over the course of one month, about 170 people were struck with a gastrointestinal bug. Health ...

The big money in utilities is at multibillion-dollar gas and electric companies. Investment banker John Griffith bet his career in the opposite direction. Three years ago, he left Wall Street and ...

The Nashville Town Council and the Utility Service Board (USB) held a joint meeting Sept. 24 to work through how to pay for a ...