This Major City’s Drinking Water Was Fine. Then Came the Private Water Company.

This summer, 81,000 homes in Pittsburgh received a worrisome letter about their water. The local utility “has found elevated levels of lead in tap water samples in some homes,” it said. Seventeen percent of samples had high levels of the metal, which can cause “serious health problems.” “They cut our laboratory in half,” said a … Continue reading This Major City’s Drinking Water Was Fine. Then Came the Private Water Company.