Chicago activists call for water infrastructure overhaul after shocking report – FOX32 (Chicago)

The report revealed that nearly 130,000 Chicago children were exposed to toxic lead through drinking water, constituting 70 percent of the city's children under the age of six.
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debtsor
2 years ago

One question on one asks here: Are they actually drinking tap water? Are these children showing up with high levels of lead in their blood?

Leaving Soon, just not soon enough
2 years ago

Raise taxes higher and higher.
No reason a $10,000 job should not cost $30,000.
Must pay the Unions for their votes.

Fur
2 years ago

Remove the fluoride too.

Freddy
2 years ago
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Wyatt Earp
2 years ago

must be why the two and three headed salmon swim in that lake.

Nick Binotti
2 years ago

Full report can be found here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2815850


In this cross-sectional study, an estimated 68% of children younger than 6 years in Chicago are exposed to lead-contaminated drinking water, with 19% of affected children using unfiltered tap water as their primary drinking water source. Predominantly Black and Hispanic blocks were disproportionately less likely to be tested for lead yet Disproportionately exposed to contaminated drinking water.

David F
2 years ago

Explains why there is so many Retarded Democrats in Chicago

Old Joe
2 years ago

Hmm, let’s import water from Flint, Michigan. Problem solved.

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