Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging. In some communities, this means water bills that residents can’t afford or water that’s unsafe to drink. It means that ...

Compare plans tailored to your home & budget. Maybe the most dreaded of home system breakdowns is the septic system. A malfunction can, at best, prevent your toilets from flushing — at the very worst, ...

POLSON — An effort to study a low-profile pollution problem in northwest Montana’s lakes has hit headwinds. Over the summer, the Flathead Basin Commission prepared a bill to study “septic leachate,” ...

Florida has more than 2 million septic systems, writes environmental scientist Iuliia Istratiy, and the runoff from them has become one of the state’s most persistent polluters.

Opinion: With millions of aging septic systems leaking pollution, lawmakers face an urgent choice: protect public health or ...

Editor's note: This story originally stated that participants must attend a virtual workshop. Participants are encouraged to attend but can participate if they do not. Homeowners in southeastern ...

A major UN report released this week shows the sea level is rising around the globe, which means people who live in coastal cities face real risks from losing their property, and in some cases their ...

HALFMOON – Twenty-six people at a Halfmoon apartment complex have been forced out of their homes after a septic system problem. The people live at Duke’s Grove on Hudson River Road. The septic system ...