A fascinating if dismal report of the state of Santa Barbara County aquifers went to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, prompting an odd “poop-fest” of a discussion of toilet-to-tap options, which ...

Federal prosecutors say dozens of wastewater test results were secretly changed to hide contamination in Texas waterways.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each week, health department teams across Virginia take to local beaches to search for a culprit that could dampen a day of fun in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half of U.S. beaches have fecal contaminated water that exceeds EPA standards. (Illustration: Oscar Duarte for Yahoo; ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or a cascade of “snowcrete,” which might actually be plausible) for the past two weeks, you have probably heard that a deluge of poop water has been wending its ...

There's gross, and then there's..... GROSS! This story deals with the latter. Fecal contamination of our beaches may not be the topic we want to think about, but with tens of millions of people ...

Each week, health department teams across Virginia take to local beaches to search for a culprit that could dampen a day of fun in the sun. Starting early in the morning, team members go beach by ...

When you visit the beach, it's understandable to assume that the water you're swimming in is clean. But a new report found that more than half the beaches across the country have fecal contamination ...