What If Your Kids Drink Contaminated Water In Schools?

LOS ANGELES - Oct. 24, 2016 - PRLog -- One of the major disadvantages of being away from your children when they go to school is being unable to watch their food and drinking habits – including whether the fountains and water dispensers where they get their thirst quenched from are safe for their health.

A recent report on CTV News Vancouver revealed that there were high levels of lead found within the waters in the Delta School District. It reportedly came after a water testing was done last April, when school administrators began flushing the pipes every start of the day in each of the school in the district. But some fountains still found problems such as being contaminated with lead after this activity.

"Buildings built prior to 1989 have copper piping, and standard practice was to externally solder pipes with a compound that may have included lead," the Delta School District stated in the report.

Some of the schools that were affected by these findings are elementary and secondary schools in the district, the report further pointed out.

Lead is considered a harmful element especially when merged with the body system. It has to potential to contaminate drinking water when service pipes made of lead corrode when the water flowing into in is highly acidic with a less mineral content, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Some of the harmful health effects of lead can affect children in the worst of ways possible. The agency noted that some of these are learning problems, behavioral changes, lower IQ, hearing problems and stunted growth. Anemia and hearing deficiencies are also among the effects of lead intake. Pregnant women can also be badly affected by lead content, which might reduce the growth of the fetus inside the uterus.

But just how safe are children in schools when it comes to the water they drink?

The New York Times published a report that delved deeper into the water problem of public schools in the region.

According to that report, many of the country's public schools accounted in around 14,000 districts take water cleanliness and safety "for granted," as lead contamination has always been a problem in these schools.

John Schwartz, one of the writers about water safety mentioned in the article that parents should just let their kids carry a reusable water bottle that are filled with tap at home, to let go of all the worries when it comes to the safety of their kids.

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Sources:

http://amzn.to/2eIHyaL

https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/basic...

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/high-levels-of-lead-found-in-drinking-water-at-19-delta-schools-1.2902066