Editor’s Note: The following open letter has been signed by 218 organizations. To view a PDF of the letter and a list of the organizations that signed it, click here. Dear Majority Leader Schumer, ...

Pennsylvania has become a battleground in the fight against water privatization. A victory in Bucks County lights the way toward many more. Pennsylvania has become a battleground in the fight against ...

A water main break shoots water into the air in the Banksville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the Pennsylvania American Water Company is the service provider. (Morgan Timms / Pittsburgh ...

It was 2015, and the city of Missoula, Montana, was fighting to take control of its water supply. Missoula’s privately owned waterworks had recently been sold to Mountain Water, a company owned by the ...

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"Water is — and always should be — a public good. Cutting corners and endangering the public to deliver profits for a private corporation is the height of greed and disregard for the people’s ...

A month after winter storms wreaked havoc across the U.S. South, Jackson, Mississippi is still in the midst of a major crisis. As of March 5, thousands of residents continued to lack water service, ...

A sign for the Rock Spring Water Company, which serves about 500 properties in rural Ferguson Township. This story was produced by the State College regional bureau of Spotlight PA, an independent, ...

A sign for the Rock Spring Water Company, which serves about 500 properties in rural Ferguson Township. A Pennsylvania commission oversees more than 150 water utilities statewide, most of which are ...