Dog study reveals 64% of private well samples had at least one metal above EPA limits, raising concerns about water quality ...

BRUCE COUNTY - Council heard a presentation during the Oct. 3 meeting on Highly Vulnerable Bedrock Aquifers and Private Water Wells by Hugh Simpson, University of Guelph. He was accompanied ...

In addition, the 7,543 well-water samples tested in 2009 are believed to represent only about one quarter of all private wells in Ottawa, provincial and city health officials confirmed Wednesday ...

Dogs drink water wherever they happen to find it—a puddle, a pond, a toilet. But the stuff in their actual water bowls almost ...

Year-round private residential well water bacterial testing is provided free of charge by Public Health Ontario and Hamilton Public Health Services.

Contaminated water has no taste, colour or smell. (Malone Mullin/CBC) Sarkar said the survey is a start but fails to cover the province's almost 40,000 private wells.

Please consider joining. A new Texas study is the first to measure groundwater quality from private water wells before, during, and after the expansion of fracking. Water photo via Shutterstock.

They recommend testing private well water be tested every three to five years to make sure water is safe, which can be done through accredited labs. Municipal water supplies are not affected.

According to researchers at Virginia Tech, the health of dogs that live in households with private wells could be an early ...

Private water wells now covered in Sask. flood damage program By David Giles Global News Posted April 8, 2015 3:26 pm Updated April 8, 2015 3:28 pm ...

From 2007 to 2012, more than a quarter of southeastern Minnesota’s grassland disappeared as fertilized farmland expanded — a shift in land use that’s contaminating the region’s private drinking water ...

EDSON, Alta. – Alberta Health Services is urging residents near a gas plant in Yellowhead County to not use water from their wells due to possible contamination. AHS says the potential ...