Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

“Boiling the water or even filtering it won’t help because that doesn’t remove the toxins, which target your liver,” said Minghao Kong, Ph.D., from the University of Cincinnati, in a recent ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- Oshkosh residents may temporarily notice an increased smell and/or taste of chlorine in their drinking water. That's because the Department of Public Works is replacing the ozone ...

Here’s more evidence that your drinking water may be unsafe. A new analysis out of Sweden reports that disinfecting water with chlorine creates chemical byproducts that can increase the risk of ...

The byproduct has been in tap water for decades, but was hard to isolate. A chemical byproduct found in some treated drinking water in the U.S. that remained a mystery for more than 40 years may have ...

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

Starting May 7, the San Luis Obispo County Department of Public Works will temporarily switch the disinfectant used in the Lopez Project water system from chloramine to free chlorine. This change will ...

Residents in multiple areas of the country are being asked to boil their drinking water to avoid potential health hazards. Officials in at least four cities and one village in Pennsylvania, Kansas, ...