Water quality

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers delivers his State of the State address at the Wisconsin State Capitol, Feb. 17, 2026, in Madison, Wis. (Owen Ziliak/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Tyco agrees to $10 million settlement with Wisconsin over PFAS water contamination

The manufacturer of firefighting foam that contaminated the water supply in northeast Wisconsin with PFAS chemicals for decades has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the state.

People swim in the Ocqueoc River at Ocqueoc Falls, near Rogers City, Mich., July 5, 2024. (Kathy Kieliszewski/Bridge Michigan via AP)

Michigan loves a ‘river story.’ But happy ending isn’t guaranteed

Vials containing PFAS samples sit in a tray April 10, 2024, at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)

Agency will move forward with plans to propose weakening some Biden-era PFAS limits, official says

The Carpet and Rug Institute building, center, in downtown Dalton, Ga., on Sept. 30, 2025. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Takeaways from investigation showing Georgia officials knew carpet mills polluted local water

Stormy Bost stands on her porch in Calhoun, Ga., on March 29, 2026. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia officials knew chemicals from carpet mills were polluting local water. The people did not

Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis

Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range, Kabul is rapidly running out of water. Experts say climate change has played its part but so has massive population growth and resource mismanagement.

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Iran war’s environmental toll could leave damage, health risks that last decades, experts say

Volunteers mobilize for World Water Day cleanup in Rio de Janeiro

Liberia’s largest gold miner spilled dangerous chemicals, records show

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Vermont officials and residents respond to ongoing PFAS contamination concerns in Bennington County

Corpus Christi to begin talks on privately built desalinization plant

From left, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality staff members Kelsee Hurshman, Jillian Scott, Ron Steg, and Shoshone National Forest hydrologist Gwen Gerber examine the shoreline of Brooks Lake Creek in Fremont County, Wyo., in September 2023. (Mike Koshmrl/WyoFile via AP)

EPA, conservation groups: Wyoming’s ‘impaired’ water protocols run afoul of the Clean Water Act

A sign at a BP petrol station in London, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

BP sued in Kenya over alleged toxic waste from 1980s oil exploration

A boy and a girl collect water from a hose connected to a well at a mosque in Deh Mazang, Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

Afghanistan’s capital is in the grip of a water crisis

A student drinks from a water fountain inside Cuyama Elementary School, Sept. 20, 2023, in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, file)

Iran war has some US water utilities facing a fluoride shortage

Environmental Protection Agency director Lee Zeldin speaks at EDSI Cables, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, in Auburn Hills, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

EPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water

University of Vermont graduate student Delaney Bullock gathers runoff samples from two agricultural fields to be analyzed for nutrient concentrations on Thursday, March 12, 2026, in Bridport, Vt. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)

Warming winters lead to more nitrate pollution in the drinking water near farms

Pipes carrying brackish feed water run through the Carlsbad desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif., Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)

What you need to know about desalination, a growing source of drinking water

The Sorek desalination plant operates in Rishon LeZion, Israel, May 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s desalination plants. Here’s what that could mean for the Mideast

A thick plume of smoke rises March 8, 2026, from an oil storage facility struck overnight in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran war’s environmental toll could leave damage and health risks for decades, experts say

After killing desalination project, Corpus Christi explores buying water from privately owned plant

Corpus Christi’s crucial refineries look for alternate water supplies amid looming water crisis

The Gaisskarferner Glacier is visible near Innsbruck, Austria, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, file)

All but 2 of Austria’s 96 glaciers have retreated over last 2 years

An under sink water filter operates Monday, March 9, 2026, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)

Do you really need a water filter? Here’s what experts say

An incoming projectile explodes over the water as Israel issues a nationwide alert following its strikes on Iran, in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Oil built the Persian Gulf. Desalinated water keeps it alive. War could threaten both

Lawmakers chip away at water protections as Senate moves to weaken aboveground storage tank rules

Richie Nero, of Boyle & Fogarty Construction, shows the the cross section of an original lead, residential water service line, at left, and the replacement copper line, at right, outside a home where service was getting upgraded June 29, 2023, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Trump administration to stand by tough Biden-era mandates to replace lead pipes

Dr. Adrienne Katner, Associate Professor at LSU-Health School of Public Health, demonstrates how to sample water for lead testing in New Orleans on Feb. 11, 2026. (Christiana Botic/Verite News and Catchlight Local/Report for America via AP)

Toxic Tap: Lead detected in 7 of 10 New Orleans homes amid delayed pipe replacement

Settlement will keep Green River Reservoir dam operating — for now

A forklift speeds by machines and workers on the production floor of a Mohawk Industries rug manufacturing plant in Calhoun, Ga., Wednesday, April 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)

Takeaways from investigation into the toxic forever chemical legacy of the South’s carpet industry

The Ahlstrom paper mill in Rhinelander, Wis., on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Takeaways from the AP’s reporting on PFAS contamination of private drinking water wells

The town hall in Stella, Wis., on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

A crisis emerges across the US as ‘forever chemicals’ quietly contaminate drinking water wells

Water swirls through the Georgia Power Co. dam on the Flint River north of Albany, Ga., Aug. 18, 2003. (AP Photo, Elliott Minor, File)

Georgia city warns against drinking tap water after Atlanta airport fuel spill

Oregon town to test river where wood treater sent polluted stormwater

Jaden Gilliam, OceanWell project engineer, left, and Mark Golay, director of engineering projects, lower a prototype reverse osmosis pod into Las Virgenes Reservoir in Westlake Village, Calif., Monday, Dec. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)

In a warming world, freshwater production is moving deep beneath the sea

Bethsaida Sigaran, left, of Baltimore, her brother Jaime Sigaran, with American Rivers, and Thea Louis, with Clean Water Action, join other supporters of the Clean Water Act as they demonstrate outside the Supreme Court, Oct. 3, 2022, in Washington, as the court begins arguments in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

EPA proposes limiting power of states and tribes to block major projects over water concerns

A sign is posted outside a water well indicates perchlorate contamination at a site in Rialto, Calif., March 28, 2005. (AP Photo/Ric Francis, File)

EPA says it will propose drinking water limit for perchlorate, but only because court ordered it

A woman holds an umbrella while crossing a street as rain falls in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

First rain of autumn falls in Iran’s capital, but the drought-ravaged nation needs far more

Justin Thomas hits from the seventh tee during the first round of the Tournament of Champions golf tournament at Kapalua Plantation Course on Kapalua, Hawaii, Jan. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

How brown grass cost a famed golf course a big tournament and highlighted Hawaii water problems

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