When you turn on a tap anywhere in the world, the quality of what flows out can literally be a matter of life and death.

May 3 -- Bottled water is the world's fastest growing beverage, but consumers would be better served by simply turning on the tap, asserts an environmental group. Bottlers of water generally ...

When you're in a hurry to boil pasta, make Jell-O, or get the French press going, it might seem harmless (efficient even) to fill your pot with hot water straight from the tap. But using hot tap water ...

Boiling tap water before use can remove at least 80 per cent of the tiny, potentially harmful plastic particles it contains. Nano and microplastics (NMPs) are pieces of plastics like polystyrene, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — One of the perks of living in San Francisco is you can turn on your kitchen faucet, drink straight out of the tap, and enjoy the freshness. That is because San Francisco’s tap ...

American Helene Sula vividly remembers the first time she discovered tap water was a different ball game in Europe. Sula, from Texas, was at a restaurant in Germany. When the server asked for her ...

Boiling and filtering tap water, researchers suggest, could reduce concentrations of microplastics by more than 80 percent. Ervins Strauhmanis via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Microplastics have become a ...

Nano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil and the air. While many creative strategies have been attempted to get rid of these plastic bits, one unexpectedly effective solution for ...

Sergio Candido is the managing editor for the South region at cbsnews.com, coordinating multiplatform news coverage for CBS Miami, CBS Texas and CBS Atlanta. He previously worked for outlets including ...

The city says routine testing on Tuesday night detected gasoline in the tap water in the Pierpont neighborhood, but further ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Almost one year since the Freedom Industries spill and still there's distrust. People in Charleston said since the MCHM spill in the Elk River, the spill that contaminated the tap ...

Springfield residents may have noticed an odd taste or smell in their tap water this week. The culprit? Algae. "We're aware that the water might taste a little off right now, and it's due to some ...