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            Lead in drinking water mentally and physically
          impairs 250,000 American school children each year
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      Auditors: EPA, states, break laws, don't test water safety
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                          [NOVEMBER 1, 1990]

"Four years after the government imposed tough rules to limit the
amount of lead in drinking water, federal auditors warn that hundreds
of thousands of American children may still be drinking lead-
contaminated water at school.

"The auditors said in a recently completed report that state agencies
and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [EPA] are failing to enforce
laws requiring school districts to test their water for dangerous
levels of lead. The laws were imposed after it was determined that
some water coolers and water fountains could taint drinking water with
lead.

"The 13 school districts in the survey -- all in the mid-Atlantic
region -- did not test their water, did not follow federal testing
standards or did only a limited amount of testing

"`Our findings confirm that harmful amounts of lead exist in the
drinking water provided by schools,' the auditors said. `We believe
that both EPA and the states must be more aggressive in eliminating
the health hazards imposed by lead in drinking water.'

"Even in trace amounts in the human body, lead can do severe damage to
the kidneys, the brain and the circulatory system. Children and
pregnant women are at greatest risk.

"The EPA has estimated that each year more than 250,000 children are
exposed to lead in drinking water at levels high enough to impair their
intellectual and physical development."

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The title and subtitle at the top are my additions;

Article is from bottom of page 12 [!], under the kinder, gentler title:
"After 4 years, rules fail to rid school's drinking water of lead,"
in Chicago Tribune, Nov. 1, 1990. From New York Times News Service.

Reminds me of the Back-Page article about 90% of their American
readers paying more taxes now than in '80, while richest 1% pay less.
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