A roughly 200-gallon spill of sodium hydroxide at the City of Lorain's Water Purification Plant turned a Friday afternoon ...

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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a news conference on Monday that a plant worker at the city of Oldsmar's water treatment facility first noticed unusual activity with its computer ...

A hacker gained access into the water treatment system of Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday and tried to increase the levels of sodium hydroxide – commonly referred to as lye – in the city’s water, ...

Your humble correspondent had quite the predicament over the weekend. I had burned one of those fake logs in the fireplace, and after the fire went out I closed the flue and went to bed. Only the fire ...

The plan to use sodium hydroxide as a lead inhibitor in the municipal water supply in Thunder Bay, Ont., was approved by the province in 2011. The city applied to use the chemical as part of its plan ...