Before Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, U.S. factories and cities could pipe their pollution directly into waterways. Rivers, including the Potomac in Washington, smelled of raw sewage and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration took action Thursday to restore federal protections for hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, undoing a Trump-era rule that ...

New Delhi: Clean water remains one of the most powerful protectors of human health. Every glass of safe drinking water reduces exposure to harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday moved to scrap limits on several toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water, reversing what had been hailed as a landmark public health victory.