With dazzling success, the Lead Industries Association spent decades pushing the use of poisonous lead pipes and paint.

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 ...

It was a decade ago that Flint, Mich. experienced a city-wide crisis caused by lead leaching from old, corroded water service ...

Water systems were required to identify whether each of their lines were lead, galvanized, non-lead or unknown, and to come up with a plan to replace any lead or galvanized pipes and identify the ...

Customers can enter an address on OCWA’s website to see what the water authority already knows about the line. Only about 400 homes have so far been verified to have lead pipes in OCWA’s ...

It's a perplexing problem this year: their drinking water has lead in it, but their main water pipes were installed long after lead pipes were banned.

In 2019, Health Canada cut lead-level guidelines in half, as lead exposure is inherently unsafe, especially to children and ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – The City of Norfolk is gearing up to replace lead pipes throughout the city for 2025. In the water ...

Lead in water service lines has been a widely discussed topic in the news and households for some time. Understanding its ...

When Minneapolis resident Jamie Laudert took her two-year-old kid to get a well-child check, he tested high for lead. Laudert was surprised by how many surfaces in her house had lead in them. “It was ...