So eight years ago, when Pittsburgh Public Schools found lead in the water students were drinking from fountains, they took action.

The School District of Philadelphia recently installed 2,404 new water bottle filling stations across schools across the city, writes Kristen A. Graham … ...

Brockton Schools converted their old drinking fountains to a total of 80 filtered water "hydration stations." ...

On Wednesday, parents at the 30 affected schools received letters notifying them of the elevated lead levels and the number of sinks and drinking fountains that are now out of commission.

The Madison School District voluntarily tested the water in drinking fountains of schools last month and discovered higher-than-acceptable levels of lead in 14 of the 156 fixtures.

A consumer group has been testing the water at schools and pre-schools and says they found that at least 1,600 drinking fountains have tested positive for lead.

ST. LOUIS — Yellow tape marks the drinking fountains in 30 St. Louis Public Schools as off-limits, denying students even a sip of water. In the wake of the lead-poisoning crisis in Flint, Mich ...

State Sen. Devlin Robinson introduced legislation last week that would require schools to replace all outdated water fountains with filtered ones by 2026.

CPS official credits a high school building engineer with inventing a drinking fountain device that flushes lead but fails to say he's on the patent.

For a while, Pierre-Louis writes, drinking fountains were a more popular source of water than bottled water. But the trend reversed and today drinking fountains are, by all accounts, disappearing.

Preliminary results from tests conducted this summer have revealed lead contamination in water found in a number of buildings throughout St. Louis Public Schools.