Water

Illinois American Water’s regional treatment facility, located along the Mississippi River in East St. Louis, serves a population of 350,000 in St. Clair and Madison counties.

The program provides a long-term look at water quality in some of Missouri’s most famous lakes. It will end in 2027 after a state agency will no longer provide federal funding.

Illinois American Water has $9.1 million in investments planned for the Metro East community's wastewater system over the next five years.

As towns like Madison consider the advantages and disadvantages of keeping water systems locally owned or selling to a private company, there are others that are taking a different approach.

City leaders say more than 13,400 residential accounts are past due, with $12.6 million in overdue funds.

Through one of the new laws, it is illegal to export water outside of Missouri without a permit.

Five dozen communities in Southern Illinois account for a third of the reported sanitary sewer overflows in the state in the last decade. But with low revenues, population declines, and bureaucratic delays, solutions are hard to come by. Meanwhile, residents face property damage flooded yards and basements and governments that still haven’t fixed the problem.

Lawmakers are making it more difficult to take water out of Missouri.

The Maries County town has until 2029 to reduce levels of PFOS that were found in a sample of its drinking water.

The Trump administration wants to rewrite the definition for what counts as protected ‘waters of the United States.' The rule has caused frustration among farmers, but environmental attorneys worry a change could lead to more pollution.