Apartment complex fails to pay bills; 100+ left without water
When Rosheda Moseley arrived at her East Columbus apartment a little after 7 a.m. Friday, she washed her face and went to bed.
MSU Extension offers lead, healthy homes training
Good health begins at home, and Mississippians can learn more about hidden dangers lurking in their household environments through workshops available from the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
How safe is your drinking water?
There is increased scrutiny nationwide of lead levels in drinking water following the crisis in Flint, Michigan, but local officials say there’s no reason for fears of similar issues in Columbus and Starkville.
Our View: In the heat of summer our thoughts turn to … water
Thursday afternoon, a Kroger employee passed out bottles of water to grateful shoppers.
US lowers fluoride in water; too much causing splotchy teeth
The government is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride in drinking water because some kids are getting too much, causing white splotches on their teeth.
Artesia residents under boil water notice
The Mississippi Department of Health has issued a boil water alert for Artesia residents who receive drinking water from the water supply in Lowndes County.
Miss. renews water-rights battle with Memphis
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking the Obama administration to weigh-in on whether to allow Mississippi to filed a new lawsuit alleging Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing water from the state.
Water rate increase coming to Columbus
Columbus Light & Water customers are about to start paying more for water.
Miss. renews water-rights battle with Memphis
Mississippi officials are renewing allegations that Memphis is stealing water from the state.
No rate increase for CL&W customers
The CL&W Board of Directors met Sept. 18 to discuss the water budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year, which begins Wednesday. During that meeting, the board voted down a recommendation from CL&W General Manager Todd Gale to increase water and sewer rates by 7.5 percent beginning in October.
CL&W looking at acquiring water customers
Columbus Light and Water board members are looking into options for generating more revenue, one of which includes acquiring new customers for water services.
CL&W talks water rate increase
A water rate increase may be in the cards for Columbus Light and Water customers.
Study: Leaky wells, not fracking, taint water
The drilling procedure called fracking didn’t cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the contamination on problems in pipes and seals in natural gas wells.
Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Oil’s thirst for water
It takes between 6 million and 11 million gallons of water to frack an oil well in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale formation of southwest Mississippi and central Louisiana.
Texas: Can’t tie water contamination to drilling
The amount of explosive gas tainting a North Texas neighborhood’s water supply has increased in recent years, but the state’s oil and gas regulator says it can’t link the methane to drilling activity nearby, according to a report it released Wednesday.
Columbus Light & Water to KiOR: No more water
KiOR has been told not to release anymore wastewater from its facility into the Columbus water system because of potential harmful materials that could be present in the Texas-based alternative fuel company’s discharge water.
Report: Labor in tub OK but water births unproven
Sitting in a tub of warm water can relieve a mom-to-be’s pain during the early stages of labor, but actually giving birth under water has no proven benefit and may be risky, say recommendations for the nation’s obstetricians.
Clay supes mulling second try for grant to build well
On Christmas Eve in 2012, one of Siloam Water District’s wells on Highway 46 failed. About 300 residences in northwest Clay County were without water until crews could manually open valves from other wells and restore supply.
W. Va. spill latest case of coal tainting waters
The chemical spill that contaminated water for hundreds of thousands in West Virginia was only the latest and most high-profile case of coal sullying the nation’s waters.
For divided Congress, water projects are unifier
Big multimillion-dollar water projects, once a favorite target of good-government reformers who made them a poster child of political pork, are back in vogue as a rare force of concord in a dysfunctional Congress.