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Run water in drinking fountains to reduce lead exposure as NC students head back to school, expert says
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – It’s a hot start to the school year in central North Carolina, and many students will be filling their water bottles or drinking from water fountains to stay hydrated.
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Are California school kids drinking water tainted with lead? We don’t know, and that’s the problem
Even commercially bottled water has a maximum allowable lead level of 5 ppb. The results revealed that nearly 1 in 5 of the 8,200 schools required to test have a drinking fountain with water ...
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Elevated lead levels in drinking water at Oakland schools spark outrage
Oakland Unified School District parents and school staff are speaking out after elevated lead levels were found in drinking ... a water fountain had ten times the amount of allowable lead levels.