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 Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the water crisis exposed nearly 100,000 residents of Flint to ...

The contamination in Flint, Michigan, 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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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