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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maanvi Singh

Lead found in tap water of Los Angeles community after residents raised alarm for years

buildings and telephone poles below dark clouds
Jordan Downs, a public housing complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California. When the area was redeveloped, lead in soil there was detected at 275 times the threshold for cleanup in California. Photograph: Barbara Davidson/The Guardian

A new report has found elevated lead levels in tap water across Watts, a south Los Angeles community that has faced decades of environmental racism, including in the drinking water of multiple public housing developments.

Researchers working with the Better Watts Initiative, a community environmental group, tested tap water at sites across the neighbourhood, and found lead, a neurotoxic metal, at or above US government limits.

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