Although lead pipes were banned decades ago, millions of homes still contain them. In fact, lead from water service lines remains one of the leading causes of childhood lead poisoning. Lead is a ...

More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued ...

Sand Creek Middle School does not have lead pipes for its drinking water, yet individual faucets would test positive for an unsafe amount of lead. Officials discovered the problem was lead in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resources are available for Atlanta-area households to have their water checked for lead exposure. (Getty Images) After a federal ...

Ten years of tap sample data published by THE CITY shows that 35% of collected drinking water samples contain some lead, and no level of lead in drinking water is safe. New York City has long touted ...

Researchers at Northwestern University hope to recruit 116 households in Greater Englewood, a community "overburdened with ...

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...

Syracuse, NY -- The overwhelming majority of lead samples taken recently by an outside company show that Syracuse’s drinking water is safe under federal standards, according to results sent to state ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – A 28-year-old Syracuse employee and a summer intern were up against a new deadline. They needed to collect at least 100 drinking water samples at residential properties for the city’s ...

IF YOU’RE OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MIGHT HAVE GROWN UP DRINKING WATER OUT OF THIS, BUT THESE DAYS YOUR CHILD MAY BE BRINGING A WATER BOTTLE LIKE THIS ONE TO SCHOOL. AND AS NEW STATEWIDE LEAD TESTING DATA ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SOMERSET — In a town where the water service lines are nearly a century old, a federally and state-mandated notice is making the ...