Learn where your water comes from, how lead ends up in your drinking water and how to take a sample of your drinking water at home.
Your local water utility then treats this “source” water at a plant to ensure it is safe to drink. There are a variety of treatment measures that can be used to ensure lead and other contaminants are not present at unsafe levels.
Water itself does not contain lead. Lead is present in pipes and fixtures and can corrode or dissolve into water due to minerals in the water, its temperature, how long it has been sitting in the pipe, age of the pipe, etc. There are 3 main lead sources in plumbing:
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