News

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Water is preparing its teams to deal with potential toxins that could appear in the city's drinking water. The utility company said it continues to test raw source water ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Some Austin Water customers have been reporting taste and smell issues from their drinking water, but Austin Water and water treatment experts say it is still safe to drink.
Residents of Austin have been asked to boil their drinking water after historic flooding there last week. The flood has sparked a water emergency that may take days to fix. After historic flooding ...
Austin Water said in a release the EPA is currently evaluating exposure to PFAS in drinking water to provide guidance on which chemicals pose health risks and at what levels. PFAS chemicals do not ...
As part of its PFAS efforts, the EPA required drinking water providers to test for the presence of 29 of the chemicals over the course of 12 months and report their results. In Austin, testing ...
With the Environmental Protection Agency sounding an alarm that a handful of human-made chemicals polluting drinking water across the nation are more toxic than once thought, Austin's primary ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Water officials on Monday released results from a year’s worth of water quality testing that was part of a nationwide effort to determine the presence of per- and ...
Austin Water said the overflow has not affected the city’s drinking water supply, and officials with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality were notified. The overflow was discovered at 9 ...
Coronado is referring to “real” losses, a term for actual drinking water lost from city pipes. The city separately tracks accounting losses due to meter inaccuracy. Austin Water estimated the ...