Residential plumbing pipes deliver and remove water to and from your house. Kitchen sinks, toilets, laundry machines, lawn sprinklers—if it uses water, a plumbing infrastructure making use of ...

The contamination in Flint sparked a national dialogue about the harms of lead pipes and the country’s aging water infrastructure.

Hills was one of 6,600 residents to receive the letter, which states that the type of water pipes leading into her home has "unknown material," possibly lead.

To Save More Water, American Homes Need Smaller Pipes Most of the plumbing pipes in the United States are oversize, wasting water in a time of increasing drought. Listen to this article · 7:37 ...

Lancaster wants to find out what the water pipes going into homes are made of.Only about 20% of customers have self-reported what type of material their pipes are – lead, copper, galvanized ...

Only about 400 homes have so far been verified to have lead pipes in OCWA’s service area, Brown said. But about 70,000 pipes are unverified or have unknown materials, he said.

Home owners must be notified if the material type of their pipes is unknown. However, getting a notification letter does not indicate that the home has lead pipes.

Home owners must be notified if the material type of their pipes is unknown. However, getting a notification letter does not indicate that the home has lead pipes.

It is not just about the temperature, but also how homes are built. Houses and buildings farther north are built to sustain this type of cold more often. However homes south of I-70, and especially ...

More than 71,000 customers of Birmingham Water Works will receive letters next week asking them to check for lead pipes in their homes.

There are similar unknown water line services in other towns, as well. Under the federal rules — the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule — water systems are required to document all water service lines ...

The vast majority of pipes for the parish's 160,000 customers haven't been tested for lead yet and are listed as "unknown," Sidney Bazley, the parish's water director, tells Axios.