Flint, Michigan, is still working on replacing all of its lead pipes. The effort was supposed to be finished years ago, but slow work, poor record-keeping and residents' mistrust in their local ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the water crisis exposed nearly 100,000 residents of Flint to lead.

Officials said fallout from the crisis led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in October 2024 to make changes to the ...

These latest results are a far cry from a year ago, when Syracuse’s testing in the first half of 2024 recorded a whopping 70 ...

The lead pipe inventories are required under new federal Environmental Protection Agency regulations mandating the removal of lead pipes over the next decade. The regulations come a decade after the ...

Key Background. A 2021 analysis by the NRDC found 56% of Americans (186 million people) drank water from drinking systems containing more than one part per billion of lead between 2018 and 2020 ...

Most cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency aimed to prevent like the ones in Flint, Mich. and Washington, D.C.

Leaving lead pipe behind should have stopped a long time ago, said Yanna Lambrinidou, a medical anthropologist at Virginia Tech and co-founder of the Campaign for Lead Free Water.

A piece of the old lead pipe is seen that a construction crew is replacing with a copper pipe to the new water main in the 113 block of S. Yale on Feb., 23, 2016.

Homeowners and landlords are responsible for replacing the pipes. The map shows that lead pipe hotspots are concentrated in low-income neighborhoods, such as Jamaica, Queens, and Pelham-Throgs ...

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 ...