Sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln first noticed on September 21 that the water they drink and bathe in had an "odor and cloudy appearance." A Navy official told Insider on ...

The US Navy found drinking water on an aircraft carrier was polluted with bacteria and bilge water. Videos shared with Insider by a USS Abraham Lincoln sailor show murky water bubbling out of ...

For years, and through an historically long deployment during the most disruptive phase of the COVID pandemic, the aircraft carrier Nimitz was hauling around polluted water in its potable water ...

Robertson said bottled water is now being provided at no cost to the crew. Robertson said the Navy has found the source of the problem to be one of Nimitz's 26 potable water tanks.

Lt. Cmdr. Adam Demeter, spokesman for the USS Nimitz, confirmed in a statement on Wednesday that the aircraft carrier “identified traces of jet propellant-5 (JP-5), used to fuel carrier based ...

Before that, no other carrier had had a water tank test positive in the past two years, ... The aircraft carrier Nimitz departs a naval base in Busan, South Korea, on April 2.