Pennsylvania school districts are not doing enough to protect their students from lead in school drinking water, according to a new study.
The study, entitled Lead in PA School Drinking Water: How PA school districts and the commonwealth are failing to protect children's health, was published by the PennEnviornment Research & Policy Center. Through a series of right-to-know requests, the authors of the study, Executive Director of PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center David Masur and Policy Analyst for Frontier Group James Horrox, wrote that nine school districts had shortcomings when it came to lead in their schools' water: Altoona, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Hazelton, Norristown, Scranton, Upper Darby, West Chester and York.
Lead in schools' water supplies is not a new phenomenon. Masur and Horrox cited a 2021 study by Women for a Healthy Environment that discovered lead in the drinking water of 90% of Pennsylvania's school districts.
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