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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Northwestern University hope to recruit 116 households in Greater Englewood, a community "overburdened with pollution," to test neighbors' drinking water.

More than half a million Houston-area residents were due letters this month to warn them that their drinking water might be leaching lead from old service lines. An Environmental Protection Agency ...

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 ...

In the past month, thousands of Iowans have received notices saying they may have lead drinking water service lines that should be replaced. Notices from Des Moines Water Works recently started ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Case studies of two cities and a state that faced lead contamination problems may give New Orleans a roadmap to cleaning its ...