Also, lead particles tend to release sporadically, so a child can go days drinking from a contaminated water fountain before ingesting the toxin. “It’s like Russian roulette,” Lambrinidou said.

North Carolina’s state budget allocates $32.8 million to test for and remediate lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers. This picture shows a water fountain in a Charlotte high ...

Centers built before 2010 are required to test all faucets and drinking fountains, per Assembly Bill 2370. If levels are above five parts lead per billion particles, they have to be fixed.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a total of $26 million in funding for states and territories to ...

Seven years after the NBC4 I-Team first exposed lead-tainted drinking water at Los Angeles-area schools, thousands of schoolchildren are still drinking from fountains that might be unsafe.

Since the project began, his teams have removed or shut off 800 of those fountains, and fixed or replaced 672. At the 9th Street School near downtown, children line up after recess to drink water. To ...

We must be willing to invest the money necessary to provide every American family access to that most basic human need: clean water.

Across Texas, about 70 percent of all schools tested have shown lead in drinking water. Dallas school officials say old fountains such as these have since been replaced.(File Photo / Tom Fox ...

Drinking water at 1 in 4 California child-care centers tests dangerously high for lead. The results mark the first time in state history that child-care facilities have been required to test for lead.

Tim Davis with the Division Of Drinking Water is overseeing a monumental task of testing every water fountain in every school in the state. So far, DDW has tested almost all of them.