Water Quality Articles

Year after year, organizations fund grant programs to improve water quality by helping people repair or replace failing onsite systems, and a...

After a few months of speculation, the proposal to give Michigan a statewide sanitary code is now in the Legislature. ...

Police in Santa Rosa, California, spent a year tracking down a man they say illegally dumped septage into city sewers. Carlos Velarde Chavez,...

The New York Legislature is considering three bills that could reduce the cost of onsite systems for state residents. One would remove the...

As one solution to reduce pollution in the Indian River Lagoon of eastern Florida, a local county board of supervisors is considering...

An investigator’s report shows the Florida septic tank where a small boy died last year was not secured as it should have...

On the eastern end of New York’s Long Island, Suffolk County is home to wealthy communities such as the Hamptons. It’s also...

When a Florida legislator introduced a bill in early 2017 to require inspections of septic systems when a property is sold, part...

One resident tried but failed to break a decade-long septic system moratorium in a California community.The Quail Valley community is near Menifee,...

The state that surrounds most of Chesapeake Bay, where struggles over water quality have occupied public attention for several years, may revive...

A series of bills to set a statewide regulation for the estimated 1.3 million septic systems in Michigan has been introduced in...

Here’s a sobering statistic: More people in the world own a cellphone than a toilet.Around 2.5 billion people lack access to the...

I remember as a young boy using the outhouse on my grandmother’s farm. She had indoor plumbing by that time, but the...

Missouri homeowners with financial need can now get loans to help cure failing onsite treatment systems. The Missouri On-site Wastewater Improvement Loan program,...