Over the past few months, clean water has come under the microscope thanks to a slew of research analyzing what’s in the stuff we drink. The latest is a study that has detected a previously ...

Public health recommendations generally suggest drinking eight cups of water a day. And many people just assume it’s healthy to drink plenty of water. Now researchers at UC San Francisco have taken a ...

Millions of Americans may be exposed to an unregulated and potentially hazardous chemical in their drinking water, according to a new study. Researchers have identified chloronitramide anion ...

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now ...

But communities could soon start removing or lowering levels of fluoride in public drinking water as misinformation about its purported harms gains dangerous momentum among media outlets and a ...

A team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland have reported the discovery of a previously unknown compound in chloraminated drinking water. Inorganic chloramines are commonly used ...

A common disinfectant in drinking water breaks down into a chemical compound we know almost nothing about, including whether it has any potential toxic health effects to those who drink it.

Separately, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has advocated the removal of fluoride from drinking water. President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has claimed ...

The byproduct has been in tap water for decades, but was hard to isolate. A chemical byproduct found in some treated drinking water in the U.S. that remained a mystery for more than 40 years may ...

While some coliform bacteria are unlikely to cause illness, if detected in drinking water they can indicate that other pathogens are present. More From Newsweek Vault: Learn More About the ...