Three hundred homes in Belfast are to be tested for lead contamination in their drinking water.
It comes after researchers at Queen's University Belfast conducted a small, random sample on 35 homes in the city and found 15% of houses exceeded the UK reference limit for lead. They also found that five test results were nearly ten times the limit.
The study, which is a citizen science project, asks people to sample their water and the researchers will pick it up. They test via the industry standard of first draw, which is in the morning from the kitchen tap before any water is used.
