How beverage battles undermined the tap and gave rise to bottled water

Dip into your average grocery or convenience store, and you’ll have your pick of at least a dozen different brands of bottled water. But despite being so ubiquitous in American culture today, the ... Read More

Is filtered water healthier than tap water?

But as it turns out, Chin-See is far from alone in her thinking. When the non-profit Environmental ... In a small study conducted in Singapore that compared tap water with filtered water samples ... Read More

How to Get PFAS Out of Your Drinking Water

At least 45 percent of the nation’s tap water is estimated to have some type of PFAS, according to a study by ... How to Find Out if There Are PFAS in Your Water The good news is that under ... Read More

EPA Sets Limits on 'Forever Chemicals' in Tap Water—Here's How That Will Affect You

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer ... Environmental Protection Agency. Questions and answers: drinking water health ... Read More

Drinking 100% orange juice is linked to surprising health benefits, study finds

"It’s important to note that drinking water has a meaningful impact on lowering blood sugar levels," she also pointed out ... health. Angelica Stabile is a lifestyle writer for Fox News ... Read More

Here’s what you can do about PFAS in your drinking water

And drinking bottled water may not be a perfect solution either. Besides being expensive, a study from 2021 found that 39 out of ... director at Consumer Reports advised. The Environmental Working ... Read More

What are PFAS? "Forever chemicals" and their health effects, explained

Regan during a news briefing. "But there's no doubt that many of these chemicals can be harmful to our health ... study published last year estimated that almost half of the United States' tap ... Read More

How to limit PFAS in your drinking water and food, according to experts

The new regulations do not apply to well water. About 15% of the US population, or more than 43 million people, rely on drinking ... for the Environmental Working Group, a consumer organization ... Read More

EPA puts limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

The Environmental ... out all kinds of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products that are unregulated now under the Safe Drinking Water Act, but [which] we know have serious health ... Read More

EPA announces first ever drinking water standards for six PFAS

Vials containing PFAS samples sit in a tray, Wednesday, April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental ... drinks bottled water because he’s worried about potential health impacts from the tap water. Read More