Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People on the north end of Mercer Island can flush their toilets again. The city asked everyone to limit their water use on ...

The City of Mercer Island previously urged residents on the north end to limit their water use after a sewer line became blocked on Tuesday. The sewer blockage has since been cleared, and all ...

Oct. 23 (UPI) --England's Southern Water is reminding residents to only flush the "three Ps" down the toilet after a sewer blockage was identified as a stash of candy wrappers. The water collection, ...

The modern toilet works on simple physics and smart engineering, but most people rarely think about what happens after the handle is pushed. Wastewater systems are designed to handle human waste and ...