An 8-year-old Brooklyn girl was scalded after taking a sip from a “hazardous” water fountain at her Inwood school, her family alleged in a lawsuit. The third-grader, identified in court papers ...

Poudre School District removed many of the drinking fountains and replaced faucets on dozens of classroom sinks in its elementary schools to ensure the amount of lead in water students drink was ...

another test found that the water was contaminated by lead at a level 25 times higher than what the state considers safe to drink, records show. Other fountains and sinks in the school followed a ...

The test results from Dec. 17 showed that two different drinking fountains exceeded the 5.0 ppb threshold. A middle school drinking fountain had 6.6 ppb, and a fifth-grade drinking fountain had 5. ...

In 2023 and 2024 tests, lead levels exceeded the state’s safety limit in fixtures at nearly every Syracuse school, records show. Across 33 buildings, water in 138 sinks and 36 water fountains ...