Drinking Water

Residents in Cadiz, a small town in southeastern Ohio, have been struggling with dirty, expensive tap water since last summer. An Allegheny Front investigation revealed a string of issues created the problems.

In Washington County, local officials have passed resolutions in an attempt to protect drinking water from fracking waste. State officials haven’t taken heed.

Washington County in southeast Ohio has more injection wells storing wastewater from oil and gas drilling than the entire state of Pennsylvania.

Columbus wants to annex most of the 2,800 acre Hoover Reservoir and surrounding land. The city says it's trying to protect the environment around the drinking water source for the city.

Researchers with the University of Toledo say carbonized corncobs can help clean drinking water contaminated from harmful algal blooms.

Rep. Donatavius Jarrells (D-Columbus) says the health impacts of replacing lead pipes in Ohio's drinking water systems would be worth the cost.

The EPA proposed the first federal limits for the toxic “forever chemicals.” If they take effect, they would mean big changes for Ohio’s water utilities.

The city of Dayton is threatening to sue Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the Department of Defense over forever chemicals in the city's drinking water.

In Ohio, more than 100 people got sick in 2013 and 2014 when municipal drinking water was contaminated with toxins from algae blooms in Lake Erie. The CDC says these are the first known instances.

For one city on Lake Erie, it's the season for monitoring toxic algae blooms – and drinking water.Toledo know how dangerous the blooms can be. In 2014,…