Schools on Alert Over Water Quality
Seattle's water woes became public this school year, thanks to four little containers of rust-colored water from fountains in the city district's Wedgewood Elementary School. Those samples, collected by concerned parents, were tested by a certified laboratory and found to exceed federal lead limits.
As a result, students in many Seattle schools are drinking bottled water these days, and the district hired a contractor last week to measure the scope of the contamination problem and fix it.
Schools across the country are examining the quality of the water their students and staffs are drinking and reaching similar decisions. In the past year alone, schools in California, Maine, New Jersey, New York state, and the District of Columbia have also...
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