Tag: children
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DC drinking water needs more monitoring for lead, audit finds
The greatest risk of lead exposure is to infants, young children, and pregnant women. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) D.C. Water isn’t doing all that could be done to reduce lead levels in the District’s drinking water, according to an audit by the city’s Office of Inspector General. While “The District has made considerable improvements since 2001 when…
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Lead-Tainted Water In Schools: Connecticut Gets Failing Grade
Photo: Connecticut received a letter grade of “F” in the “Get the Lead Out” report from public policy researchers. (Shutterstock) Most U.S. states fail to protect school kids from lead five years after the Flint water crisis, a new report shows. CONNECTICUT — More than half of U.S. states are doing a terrible job keeping…
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Dirty water 20 times deadlier to children in conflict zones than bullets – Unicef
World Water Day study highlights lethal nature of unsafe sanitation and hygiene for children, especially under-fives Children under five who live in conflict zones are 20 times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases linked to unsafe water than from direct violence as a result of war, Unicef has found. Analysing mortality data from 16…
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New Mexico: New administration opens up on lead data
The NM Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has 13 questions to help you determine if you should test your child for lead. It’s online at: https://nmhealth.org/publication/view/form/351/ In 2017, Reuters published a map on lead poisoning among children across the nation. The story examined where children were tested for lead and how many had high levels…
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Study: Flint’s lead-poisoned water had ‘horrifyingly large’ effect on fetal deaths
Flint resident LaFonzo Williams, 19, prays on Jan. 14, 2016, in Lansing, Mich., amid more than 150 Flint and Detroit residents before heading into the state Capitol to protest Gov. Rick Snyder, asking for his resignation and arrest in relation to Flint’s water crisis. (Jake May/Flint Journal-MLive.com via Associated Press) The fertility rate in Flint,…
