More than 2.5 million Pennsylvania residents rely on private wells for their drinking water. Yet these wells are not regulated, leaving homeowners to their own devices to test and treat their water.

Do you live in one of the more than one million homes and farms in Pennsylvania that get their drinking water from a private well or spring? Would you like to have your water tested for free? The ...

When Jeff Broberg and his wife, Erica, moved to their 170-acre bean and grain farm in Winona, Minnesota in 1986, their well water measured at 8.6 ppm for nitrates. These nitrogen-based compounds, ...

FORT DODGE, Iowa — Allison Roderick has a warning and a pledge for rural residents of her county: The water from their wells could be contaminated, but the government can help make it safe. Roderick ...

More than 40 million Americans get their drinking water not from the public supply but from private sources, and nearly all of them rely on groundwater that could contain a hidden threat: a class of ...

Phyllis Blackiston at her former home in Millsboro, Del., in July of 2022. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover?

BRAINERD — Minnesota Department of Health is providing free test kits for people who have had their private wells flooded, Crow Wing County reported. Test kits are available to residents who have a ...

Allison Roderick, environmental health officer for Webster County, Iowa, draws a sample of well water from a home near Fort Dodge, Iowa. Roderick sends the samples to a lab to test for bacteria, ...