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Living Safely with Lead Summer Series

July 8, 2025 | Virtual

Join Clean Water Action for the Living Safely with Lead Summer Series, a five-part virtual event focused on understanding and preventing lead exposure in Philadelphia homes and neighborhoods.

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Let's Put Lead Service Lines Behind Us

January 16, 2024 | By Lynn Thorp

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed updates to the Safe Drinking Water Act Lead and Copper Rule and is accepting public comments through February 5, 2024.

Report from the White House Summit on Accelerating Lead Pipe Replacement

February 1, 2023 | By Lynn Thorp

It’s no small thing to move an issue like lead service line replacement all the way to the White House. Growing recognition that there are still sources of lead in our drinking water systems and that they pose a real health risk has helped propel this issue to the top of the Administration’s agenda.

National Accelerating Lead PIpe Replacement Summit. Kamala Harris speaking to attendees at the White House.

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Groundbreaking Plan to Reduce Lead Exposure in Drinking Water Will Also Protect Denver’s River, Lakes, and Streams

August 1, 2019 | By Jennifer Peters

Denver Water has proposed a bold, multi-faceted plan that tackles the largest source of lead to its water customers, the lead service lines.

A Call to Action: We Can Take Back the Tap, One Municipality at a Time!

March 18, 2019 | By Kim Gaddy

Older cities and towns throughout New Jersey and the nation are facing a public health crisis - lead in drinking water.

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Children’s health should not be a lottery system

April 12, 2018 | By Maureo Fernández y Mora

When I applied to be a door to door canvasser for Clean Water in my senior year of college, I figured it would be a pretty cool part time job until graduation. Little did I know that Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund would be my first employer out of college as well! After just under a year