water safety

Wander Franco appeared before prosecutors Monday while accompanied by two lawyers, days after not showing up for a meeting with a Dominican Republic prosecutor.

New research finds that private wells near more than 82% of select military sites were contaminated with PFAS chemicals. The study listed six in Florida below the threshold the Pentagon uses to trigger remediation.

The bills would direct the Florida Department of Health to develop a program that would contract with vendors to “increase water safety in this state."

Authorities in the shortstop's native Dominican Republic are looking into allegations that the All-Star had a relationship with a minor. He likely won't play again this season.

Splash pad visits might provide some relief from sweltering heat, but they could also be exposing children to bacteria that could make them sick.

Children learned how to float or breathe underwater at almost 30 community pools around the Tampa Bay area on Thursday.

“Pandora’s Gamble” describes how 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of wastewater potentially containing anthrax, Ebola and other deadly pathogens spilled from an Army facility in Maryland in 2018.

Several Florida counties - and some Tampa Bay area communities - remain under boil water notices after Hurricane Irma. The Florida Department of Health…

Nationally, Florida tops the charts for drowning deaths for children under five. That's why the Tampa Bay Rays and the YMCA partnered again this summer to…

USF and its Patel College of Global Sustainability have made water one of their priorities through research into such efforts as turning wastewater into a…

Work by USF researchers into what Nancy Stoner calls "real-world problems" -- like detecting contaminated water supplies and turning wastewater into…