PVC pipe is one of the most common and popular options for providing communities and homes with clean, safe drinking water.

If you’re concerned about microplastics, PFAS and lead, there are certain ways to make your drinking water safer.

NEW: A Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association official has a rebuttal to the Beyond Plastics report covered in this story. Read the detailed update here. Bennington, Vt.-based Beyond Plastics, a nonprofit ...

Over the past few months, clean water has come under the microscope thanks to a slew of research analyzing what’s in the stuff we drink. The latest is a study that has detected a previously ...

You've probably grabbed a plastic bottle of water without thinking twice about it. Convenient, right? Refreshing. Maybe even a bit healthier than that soda you usually grab. Here's the thing though: ...

For years, bottled water has been marketed as the cleaner, safer alternative to whatever comes out of the kitchen faucet. Now the scientist behind one of the most detailed tests of plastic ...

If someone told me 10 years ago that people would willingly pay over $5 for a one-gallon container of water, I would have scoffed. Yet here we are buying bottled water even by the cup. People buy ...

Drinking from plastic bottles may be poisonous to your health — and drinking straight from the tap might save your life. A recent study published in the journal Microplastics found that drinking from ...

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...