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How Pittsburgh’s Drinking Water Got Contaminated with Lead

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How Pittsburgh’s Drinking Water Got Contaminated with Lead
This summer, 81,000 homes in Pittsburgh received a worrisome letter about their water. The local utility "has found elevated levels of lead in tap water samples in some homes," it said. Seventeen percent of samples had high levels of the metal, which can cause "serious health problems." The situation was bad enough to attract the […] The post How Pittsburgh's Drinking Water Got Contaminated with Lead appeared first on WIRED.
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