Is My Water Safe?
It depends on where you live. NYC water is sourced from The Catskill Mountains and is some of the cleanest water in the country, at least until it gets into your home. That is where the lead begins. Service lines connecting homes to streets installed before 1961 and plumbing installed before 1987 may contain lead. To see if there is lead in your water you can order a free Lead Test Kit from NYC: https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-01403.
Other towns such as Newark or Flint know about the lead in their tap water thanks to improperly managed water systems. Unfortunately, the water problem in these two cities is more common then we realize. In 2015, there were 81,000 Safe Drinking Water Act violations reported at 18,000 of the nation’s 52,000 community water systems. These violations effect nearly 25% of the U.S. population1. To make matters worse, included in the statistics are 8,000 Lead and Copper violations which effect over 18 million people.
Read more at https://esgadministration.com/is-my-water-safe/