Americans have clean and safe drinking water because water-supply companies rigorously treat it to adhere to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. While chlorine has long been used ...

More than 113 million Americans drink water that has been treated with chloramine, a compound created when chlorine and ammonia are combined. Getty Images/iStockphoto Researchers say they have ...

A newly identified chemical byproduct may be present in drinking water in about a third of U.S. homes, a study found. Scientists do not yet know whether the byproduct is dangerous. But some are ...

Q: There's been talk about local water suppliers treating water with chloramine instead of chlorine. The proponents of this process seem to say there is little detrimental effect. But I read on one ...

Tap water for about 1 in 3 Americans could contain a byproduct from the decontamination process that may be toxic, according to a study published Thursday. For over a century, public water systems ...

First, Crystal Stephens noticed the new, odd odor of her tap water. “It smelled either like bleach or fishy,” says the resident of Hannibal, Missouri. Then, when she showered, she developed a cough, ...

There's chlorine in your drinking water, America. Or maybe there's a different chlorine compound called chloramine. This isn't meant to alarm you, though of course it's alarming to many. An entire ...

Mixing ammonia and bleach is not safe and can be life-threatening depending on the amounts you use. It causes the release of chloramine gas, which is poisonous. Share on Pinterest In an era of ...

Aditi Gandhi, a student athlete from the Blake School in Minneapolis, has invented a device that continuously monitors for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say they have identified a previously unknown, potentially toxic chemical called chloronitramide anion in the drinking ...