The first time you empty the P-trap on your bathroom sink, you’re likely to gag. A few times more, and you get tougher. It’s a lot like getting used to changing baby diapers. The P-trap is that curved ...

PHOENIX (Stacker) - From New York City to the Navajo Nation, people across the country are facing climate-driven water scarcity, exorbitant utility bills, aging or incomplete infrastructure, community ...

Old-style faucets, the ones with washers, were usually predictable. A busy bathroom sink faucet could be expected to work fine for about a year, then you’d starting noticing it took more and more ...

Four students at Elizabethtown College in PA recently won accolades for a brilliant idea that materialized in the form of a “plumbing trainer” designed to advance understanding of basic plumbing ...

In previous columns we have discussed workload management and estimating as “hard” basics in the plumbing/mechanical subcontracting business. Inventory control is another area that can either make ...

More than 2 million people in the U.S. lack running water and basic indoor plumbing, according to a new report by the human-rights nonprofit DigDeep and the nonprofit U.S. Water Alliance — and race ...