SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Every month, Deacon Perry Owens Sr. estimates he spends at least $100 on bottled water. He doesn’t drink the tap water from his Emerald Hills home. “It has a smell to it, a stench ...

Carlsbad advanced a 12-unit infill housing project on Jefferson Street despite plans to connect the development to existing ...

Q. My home was built in 1926 and has asbestos insulation on all the hot water pipes under the building. Fortunately, all of this asbestos has been wrapped. When I first learned about it, I was ...

The San Antonio Water System says it's going to be laser focused on reducing leaks and water main breaks. At a board meeting Tuesday, it outlined a $550 million effort to replace older pipes. That ...

The San Antonio Water System lost more than 20-billion gallons of water last year because of leaks and main breaks. Tuesday morning SAWS board members will be briefed on a plan to replace older water ...

If you know anything at all about pipe insulation, you know that it goes a long way toward preventing frozen pipes. That's true: Pipe insulation keeps the water in your plumbing system from turning to ...

I was under the impression that the owner of a single family home is allowed to remove a certain amount of asbestos pipe insulation, like 25′. I can’t find anything at nyc.gov to confirm or deny.

Asbestos, a known carcinogen, was widely used to reinforce concrete water and sewer pipes from the 1930s through the 1970s, ...

The nuclear disaster in Japan may have dominated global headlines but work to repair the country's running water infrastructure has continued throughout the past few weeks. Water pipelines in Japans ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Classes are canceled at two more Philadelphia schools due to asbestos concerns. The School District of Philadelphia has closed Carnell Elementary School in Oxford Circle and ...

A major pipe burst in Riverclub resulted in the excavation of resident Charl Crofton's front lawn and driveway. Photo: Chanté Ho Hip Johannesburg Water will replace the old asbestos cement piping ...