The Small Home, Big Decisions series follows Jennifer and her husband, Tyler, as they build a self-reliant homestead on a piece of country property in northeastern Kansas. The series will delve into ...

All sorts of nasties—lead, mercury, radium, nitrates, norovirus, agricultural runoff, PFAS, and more—can lurk in your water. No surprise, then, that about 40% of U.S. homes filter theirs. But the ...

In this essential survival project, we show how to build a natural water filter tank to clean underground well water for safe daily use. After digging a 4-meter well, we discovered the water wasn’t ...

Welcome to People’s Choice, where we find the best-reviewed products and single out the most convincing reviews. (You can learn more about our rating system and how we pick each item here.) There ...

In a world of plastic water filter pitchers, I tested two of the new generation of stainless-steel filter systems. I will admit that the popularity of those giant, stainless steel, gravity-fed water ...