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.

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 ...

MANCHESTER, MI - Manchester Community Schools is working to replace sinks and water fountain fixtures in some of its schools after water testing revealed lead levels above the allowable amount.

Testing of drinking ... maximum allowable concentration of lead in drinking water in half, from 0.01 milligrams per litre to 0.005 milligrams per litre. "We had quite a number [of fountains ...