If you've got a box of extra PVC pipes and fittings sitting your shed or garage from a previous project, you're halfway to creating your own drip system.

Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman in the Beyond Paradise Christmas special, which duly delivers a bulging stocking of seasonal sentiment (Photo: BBC/Red Planet Pictures/Joss Barratt) Humphrey’s ...

Water watchers know: Sometimes, you can’t swim in the Willamette River. That’s because when the wastewater system gets inundated with water, it overflows, sending raw sewage into the river that ...