Quick Drips

A metallic taste in tap water usually means iron, copper, or zinc from your own plumbing, not lead. Here are the free checks that find the source, and where a filter honestly fits.

Back from a trip? Here is what happens to water that sat in your pipes for a week, how to flush it in about ten minutes, and where a filter honestly fits.

Dorms and first apartments come with older plumbing and a summer of stagnant water in the pipes. A calm move-in guide: check the report, flush the tap, filter what you drink.

Lead in school drinking water usually comes from old plumbing, not the source, and it builds up over long summer breaks. Here is how it happens, what the testing numbers mean, and the simple thing parents control from home.