SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — When the state of New York became the first in the nation to require all public schools to test their drinking water for lead in 2016, Keyry Broncano learned that water ...

But providing safe water for kids to drink during the school day shouldn’t be optional. More to Read . Nearly half of Pasadena Unified schools have contaminated soil, district finds.

Portland schools only recently re-opened their taps, following 2016 test results that showed most of the water kids were drinking at school was tainted with lead. Shutterstock ...

CBS13 reviewed internal school emails that indicate some schools did find lead in school drinking water but didn't notify parents or fix the tap. Years later, some of those taps are still in use.

In California, a law was enacted in September 2010 requiring that public schools provide free drinking water during meals. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, also signed into law that year ...

Increased access to drinking water could improve kids' health, a new study found. A hallway water fountain is shown in San Francisco International High School in California's Bay Area in October 2017.

The AP analyzed a database showing federal drinking water violations from 1998 to 2008 in schools with their own water supplies. The findings: - Water in about 100 school districts and 2,250 ...

Camden City School District: Schools in Camden, about 85 miles from Newark, have been distributing bottled water since 2002 at an annual cost of $75,000 for their roughly 12,000 students. In July ...

The state of Michigan, and the community of Flint in particular, are all too familiar with the dangers of lead poisoning. More than 8,000 Flint children were exposed to lead-contaminated water ...

In 2016, a new state law required schools to start testing drinking water for lead. At the time, districts needed to shut off and fix any fixtures that had more than 15 parts per billion of lead.

In late 2023, Gwinnett County Public Schools became the first major school district in the metro to enroll in the Clean Water for Georgia Kids program. Testing began in January 2024.