Flint Is Not The Only City Water with Unsafe Lead Levels.

says while the Flint crisis “may be the most serious contamination threat facing the country’s water supplies,” it is “hardly the only one” as “unsafe levels of lead have turned up in tap water in city after city.” While “Federal officials and many scientists agree that most of the nation’s 53,000 community water systems provide safe drinking water,” those case “are unsettling reminders of what experts say are holes in the safety net of rules and procedures intended to keep water not just lead-free, but free of all poisons.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/regulatory-gaps-leave-unsafe-lead-levels-in-water-nationwide.html?_r=0