The Trouble With America’s Water
Lead-tainted drinking water is not only a problem in Flint and Newark.
The city of Newark, New Jersey, is racing to replace all of its lead pipes after a public outcry over the high levels of lead in its water. After exceeding a federal lead limit three times in a row, the city began to provide water filters to certain residents in 2018. But some of the filters were found to be ineffective, and as of the end of last month, thousands of the city’s residents were still advised to drink bottled water.
The situation is said to have “” of the in Flint, Michigan, a few years ago. As in Flint, a change in
