In this 1938 image, a Black boy uses a fountain marked 'colored' at a North Carolina county courthouse. Getty Images No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking ...

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Lead is a potent environmental neurotoxin, and there is no safe level for exposure. So eight years ago, when Pittsburgh Public Schools found lead in the water students were ...

Children attending older California schools are in danger of exposure to lead-tainted water because drinking fountains and faucets have not been tested for unsafe levels of the toxic metal. Lead ...

hey don't have parks like these on the West Side, Sam Warren, an IT consultant from Puyallup, is thinking as he strolls down Riverfront Park's promenade Friday morning. He heads over to the water ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Over the past several weeks, Austin Water installed two new public drinking fountains downtown. Last year, Austin Water budgeted about $750,000 in order to install a total of 10 ...

New Yorkers may have an easier time finding public drinking fountains on steamy summer days thanks to a bill passed by the City Council last week that will require the Parks Department to add 50 new ...

The faucet comes from a company called Nasoni, whose name is a nod to the public drinking fountains sprinkled across Rome, and for good reason. The Da Vinci faucet looks normal at first glance, with ...

Coffee grounds, leftover soup and other “decaying liquid” bubbled out of water fountains at U.S. EPA headquarters in December. Coffee grounds, leftover soup and other "decaying liquid" bubbled out of ...