Kids drinking from the garden hose has been normalized since the eighties, when rules were looser and summer break consisted of long, hot afternoons swimming in neighborhood pools, jumping on ...

This unsupervised child is getting a taste of long-term neurological damage. It's a hot summer day. You're laboring outdoors in the garden, or maybe returning from a walk around the neighborhood.

When I was a kid, summer days were spent entirely outdoors. If we got thirsty, we’d take a quick drink from the garden hose and keep on playing. We never thought twice about it. But now, as a parent ...

Oliver A.H. Jones is Deputy Director of the Water: Emerging Technology and Tools (WETT) Research Centre at RMIT University. He has received funding from Melbourne Water and EPA Victoria for research ...