Tap water may look cloudy to customers in the East Bay, South Bay and parts of the Peninsula for the next eight weeks, but it will be as pure and tasty as ever, officials said Wednesday.

Researchers have identified a by-product of a chemical used to disinfect the tap water of millions of Americans. But the discovery, reported Thursday in the journal Science, cannot yet say if the ...

Within the U.S., tap water sources are heavily regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. Because of this bill, the EPA is able to set ...

In 2023, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power — which serves about 4 million people throughout the city of Los Angeles — sourced its tap water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the ...

Tap water in parts of a Spanish tourist hot spot is now so salty it’s become undrinkable, with residents and visitors having to line up for bottled or tanked-in drinking water as the region ...

A recent scientific paper published in BMJ Global Health argues that tap water in the U.S. is almost always a healthier choice than drinking bottled water. The paper notes that ...