Nearly one-fifth of Americans relied on drinking water systems with elevated and potentially dangerous levels of nitrate in recent years, according to a new study released Thursday.

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

The well water treatment plant that services the neighbors of the Flemington Road community located in Wilmington, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Randall Hill) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA ...

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Town officials in Lucama are answering questions about why residents still have brown water, even after years of complaints.