On December 16, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Safe Drinking Water Act. Fifty years later, it remains one of America’s most important environmental laws and most effective public ...

A proposed new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would mean that most cities have to replace their lead water pipes within a decade. That’s a big deal—but it doesn’t actually go far ...

All too often, Americans of all political stripes are quick to criticize the decisions made by the federal government or to raise concerns over whether Washington, D.C. understands the issues that ...

HOUSTON – People in Houston now have clean drinking water, after having to boil it for a day. Civil engineers say this challenge has highlighted a big issue: the pipe systems that are failing across ...

Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in ...

The quality of the nation’s drinking water has been a concern for decades. In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act (amended in 1986 and 1996) to establish national health-based standards ...

Packard is part of a team of volunteers with Marion Medical Mission, a non-profit that has spent decades installing more than ...