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 ...

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

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Cleveland Water is sending out thousands of letters to try to find and replace lead pipes, and is asking customers to use a camera, a magnet and a penny to help the cause. The ...

DECATUR, Ga. — DeKalb County is among the jurisdictions that encourage homeowners to get their water pipes tested for lead. The federal government recently announced a program to eliminate lead pipes ...

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 ...

Each morning, Katherine Prevost fills her coffee maker with water from her kitchen faucet and presses the button. Until ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents of about 250,000 New York City buildings with lead pipes or possible lead pipes could have a new option for safe drinking water. A new bill introduced on Wednesday by Rep. Ritchie Torres, a ...