Clean, safe drinking water is something most homeowners take for granted, yet it relies on a delicate balance of pressure, proper plumbing design, and effective safeguards working behind the scenes.

National Backflow Prevention Day is a day dedicated to the celebration of backflow prevention and cross-connection control. Backflow preventers are the unsung heroes of water safety as they often go ...

Sarnia businesses, institutions and apartment buildings could soon be required to invest thousands of dollars into backflow prevention devices in an effort to protect the city's drinking water. City ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - Some businesses in Lake Charles and Sulphur are alarmed to find out they have to upgrade their plumbing within the next few months. They fear it may cost them thousands of ...

To prevent basement flooding that numerous residents reported during heavy rains this spring, Bexley City Council is considering legislation that would enable residents to request the city install ...

A Pittston-based firm this week pitched the Altoona Water Authority on administering a program to help bring water customers into compliance with laws requiring backflow prevention valves and annual ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - INFORMATION FROM THE CITY OF SHREVEPORT: Residential water customers with a lawn irrigation system will soon receive notices about completing ...

Brett Rathje (front) and Eric Egge (back) look on while Derek Young works on a valve as they try to repair a water main break in Onslow in Jones County in 2014. Rathje, Egge and Young were working for ...