Pittsburgh residents demand their water be tested for lead - World Socialist Web Site
▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/09/29/pitt-s29.html
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Water authorities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania are conducting political damage control over the city’s escalating water crisis. Thousands of residents are demanding that their water be tested for lead after a report from July indicated that 43 of the 100 homes tested have dangerously high levels of lead in their water.
On September 12, Bernard Lindstrom, a former Colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers, became the latest in a string of interim directors of the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority (PWSA). His main focus, as he explained to reporters, was to rebuild public trust in the water system. Easier said than done. The department is woefully incapable of meeting demands of residents to test their water.
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