Lead in Drinking Water Continues to Make the News

The issue of lead in Ontario’s drinking water continues to make headlines daily. The upshot is that “Governments should stop dithering over getting rid of lead in water”. as expressed in an opinion piece in the Toronto Star on November 8, 2019. No amount of lead is safe in our drinking water so it just makes sense that our federal, provincial and municipal levels of governments across Canada must start working together to implement policies and allocate the funding needed to ensure all drinking water is safe – whether it be consumed in public schools or private residences.

Ontario Green party leader Mike Schreiner correctly notes that children ought to be able to use the water fountain at their school, without worry about lead contamination:

A young adult notes that her old high school has the dubious distinction of being the number one school in Ontario for lead toxicity in drinking water:

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Another citizen questions political priorities in Ontario, where cell phone bans were the government’s focus while lead in drinking water at Ontario’s schools seemed a lower priority:

And yet another citizen comments on how lead in water and general disrepair in Ontario’s schools must be priority issues in the days and weeks to come:

And another citzen highlights the importance of mulitple levels of government coming together to address this non-partisan issue of safe drinking water: