Drinking water quality

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syria has received two million doses of cholera vaccines, the first to reach the country during a months-long outbreak, the country's health ministry said…
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MONTROSE, Pa. -- A plea hearing has been scheduled for next week in the long-running case of a natural gas driller facing felony charges over allegations it polluted the aquifer of a…
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Federal health officials are conducting a new study to determine whether veterans once stationed at a now-shuttered California military base were exposed to dangerously high levels of…
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BHANINE, Lebanon -- Shadia Ahmed panicked as rainwater flooded her shack one night, drenching her seven children. The next morning, the kids were seized by vomiting, diarrhea and other…
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JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- The U.S. military said Monday it's ready to begin draining 1 million gallons (3.79 million liters) of fuel from three pipelines as part of an…
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JACKSON, Miss -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan returned to Mississippi’s capital city Monday to meet with Jackson officials about the city’s troubled water…
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JACKSON, Miss. -- An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it's being brought in to investigate the troubled water system in Mississippi's…
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BEIRUT -- The outbreak of cholera in Syria presents a serious threat to people in the war-torn country and the region, a U.N. official said Tuesday, adding that urgent action is needed…
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OMAHA, Neb. -- A child likely died from a rare infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in an eastern Nebraska river, health officials said, making it the second such…
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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday the U.S. is safer if people in other countries have sufficient water to drink, grow food and safely dispose of sewage,…
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