Get The Lead Out

Lead is a highly poisonous metal and can affect almost every organ in the body and the nervous system. EPA estimates that lead in drinking water can be 20% or more of a person’s lead exposure. To protect public health, we must reduce lead exposure at the drinking water tap. Clean Water is working at the national and state level through policy, support for communities and water systems, and funding for lead service line replacement.

Lead and Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that lead in drinking water can be 20% or more of a person’s lead exposure. We need to get lead out of contact with water. That’s where full lead service line replacement comes in - alongside advocacy, collaboration, and education.
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Health Impacts of Lead

 

How Lead Gets Into Drinking Water

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Lead and Drinking Water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that lead in drinking water can be 20% or more of a person’s lead exposure. We need to get lead out of contact with water. That’s where full lead service line replacement comes in - alongside advocacy, collaboration, and education.
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Letter to EPA: National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper Rule Improvements

Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund emphasize the need to fully replace all lead service lines, service line inventories, and lowering the Action Level for lead in water sampling.

Letter to Congress: 150+ Organizations in Support of Low Income Household Water Assistance Program Funding

On behalf of the more than 150 undersigned water associations, environmental, low-income, and other public interest advocates, and labor unions, we urge Congress to provide FY24 funding for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Low Income Household Water Assistance Program. Without action to continue this critical program, hundreds of thousands of low-income households could lose access to essential water service.

Plomo y el Agua Potable

Para proteger la salud pública, debemos reducir la exposición al plomo en el grifo de agua potable.
Children wading into a Michigan lake. "For Our Clean Water Future". Photo: Jen Schlicht

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