Newark New Jersey Becomes The Latest City With Elevated Lead Levels In Drinking Water

New Jersey's largest city this week began offering bottled water to about 14,000 households that may have been consuming tap water contaminated with lead for months or possibly years -- a move residents and water experts said came long after official denials anything was wrong.

City and state officials have sought to assure residents they're dealing with what they now acknowledge is a problem, but fear and anger continue to simmer.
Newark hands out bottled water after its filter program fails to fix lead problem
Newark hands out bottled water after its filter program fails to fix lead problem
"It's a right, not a privilege, to have clean, safe water, and we are committed to that," Gov. Phil Murphy said Wednesday as he toured a downtown water distribution location with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka; both are Democrats.
The city and state intend "to get this as right, as fast as we can," Murphy said. "We take this very seriously. We want to be out ahead of this."
But for many here, that moment already has passed.
The growing crisis in Newark has been compared to Flint, Michigan, where longstanding dangerous lead levels in many predominantly African-American and low-income neighborhoods forced people to rely on bottled water and led to the prosecution of state and local officials.
"It's once again a case of environmental injustice, a case of environmental racism," Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the Flint physician who sounded the alarm on that city's water crisis, said of Newark.
"It is once again a population of poor, predominantly minority people who are disproportionately burdened by contamination. Flint wasn't the first example. Newark is not the last example."


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