BOSTON – Utilities are under growing pressure from lawmakers and environmental groups to plug tens of thousands of leaks in aging underground gas pipelines, some of which are decades old. An ...

Water utilities are increasingly turning their attention to a part of the system that, well, they don't actually own: the private pipes that connect houses and buildings to the sewer system. In many ...

Some plumbing problems definitely call for pro-grade expertise, but fixing a water shut-off valve leak isn’t one of them. Here, we aren’t talking about leaking from the connection between the valve ...

It started with a phone call from Marcia. She had an idea for a column, but while she usually breaks this to me with an enthusiastic "I have an idea for a column!," in this case it was delivered in ...

If you’ve had leaky pipes and your house was built during the 1980s and early 1990s, you might qualify for a plumbing replacement at no cost to you, as a result of a class-action lawsuit settlement ...

Artificial “platelets” could fix leaking pipes just as natural ones help blood clot in a cut. Squishy blobs introduced upstream of a leak are carried along to the leak and clog it up as a temporary ...

KONA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Teachers at a Hawaii Island school with nearly 1,000 students are speaking out about leaking pipes. They said the problems at Kealakehe Elementary School need a permanent ...