Water Advisory Insights

Plain-language explainers on advisories, water safety and what to do before, during and after a notice — across the U.S. and Canada.

Fountains off, ice dumped, showers decided case by case, steam rooms closed. What a gym has to change the morning an advisory…

The shelves are empty, the power is out, and the stove is electric. Here is where the water in your house already…

Children notice when the tap stops being trusted. What to tell them at each age, how to keep routines intact, and what…

The water inside a flooded house is not tap water, the well may be contaminated, and the basement has to be pumped…

A strip and a laboratory test can both be sold as "water testing" and answer completely different questions. Which tests you can…

Vinegar is a cleaner, not a disinfectant. Alcohol works on the right surface with the right contact time. Heat beats both. A…

Hardware gives bacteria more places to hide, and a boil water advisory takes away the tap you normally rinse it all under.…

A boil water advisory for a neighborhood in Riverdale, Georgia, has been lifted after crews repaired a broken water main and water…

Delivery does not outsource the risk. Most of it sits in the cup, the salad bowl and the clock — not in…

High blood glucose slows healing and raises the cost of an infection. What changes during a boil water advisory — foot checks,…