WASHINGTON (7News) — The Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission tells 7News that a sewer overflow in Bethesda last week was possibly caused by a collapsed 15-inch pipe, which may have come as a ...

Personal hygiene wipes may make for a more satisfying bathroom experience, but they're proving to be damaging to one Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, town's sewage system. Pottstown spent around ...

(WXYZ) — As more people are staying home during the COVID-19 outbreak, the Great Lakes Water Authority is reminding everyone to be mindful of what they flush down ...

Jeepers, creepers! Look at this photo. This dumpster contains the ingredients of a fatberg — a toxic stew of fats, oils and grease that met up in the sewage system with sanitary products, none of ...

From Tic Tacs to Summer's Eve, products that assuage what I call "orifice insecurity"—the gnawing fear that our holes are socially unacceptable—will always sell. Flushable wipes fit the bill.

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the basement of the Center for Urban Innovation at Ryerson University in Toronto, a ...

Syracuse, NY -The convenience of "flushable" wipes, the kind used to clean a baby's bum, take off the day's makeup or disinfect the bathroom sink, are costing sewer plant operators millions of dollars ...

Increasingly popular bathroom wipes, thick, premoistened towelettes that are advertised as flushable, are creating clogs and backups in sewer systems around the nation. Julio Cortez/AP A proposal that ...