It's not unusual to find rust around salt water, but now the pairing might actually be useful. Researchers at Caltech and Northwestern University have found that electricity can be produced when salt ...

If your water tastes like it's been sitting in an old frying pan and your white laundry has acquired an orange-ish "patina," you have rusty water, otherwise known as water with a lot of iron in it.

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Philadelphia Water Department is advising those in the University City section of Philadelphia that their water may be affected by recent maintenance work. "Rusty water" has ...

Boulder water customers may tap “rusty” water on Monday morning and water officials suggest that thirsty users bypass it due to “unpleasant taste.” City officials say the water should cause “no known ...

MONTGOMERY, Ill. (CBS)-- Rusty water is again a problem in the Kendall County community of Boulder Hill. As WBBM Newsradio's Bernie Tafoya reports, residents of unincorporated Boulder Hill thought ...

Estrogen can harm aquatic plants and animals when passed into waterways via human and agricultural waste streams. Researchers have now developed a new way of removing the hormone from water, however, ...

Imagine leaving your shiny metal bicycle outside in the rain. As water pools on its surfaces, oxygen from the air lingers nearby, and together they begin to quietly attack the metal. The iron in the ...

Officials are warning that Ames residents may experience rusty water and fluctuations in water pressure over the next several weeks as workers test and disinfect new water plant equipment.Rusty water ...

(WXYZ) — The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) is investigating reports of brown, rusty water in taps and toilets in several neighborhoods on the city's ...

EVERETT — Hundreds of residents flooded the city’s public works telephone lines Tuesday to complain about dirty water coming out of their faucets, lining their toilet bowls and fouling their laundry.