Two locations test high for lead in Middletown schools.
The district announced Monday morning that a drinking fountain at Middletown Village Elementary and a sink in the nurse’s office at River Plaza Elementary both exceeded the standard for safe drinking water.
Even low levels of lead poisoning can hinder the development of a growing child’s body and mind.
The effects are irreversible.
Watch the video above to see how lead gets into your tap water.
Both sources of water were shut down and were replaced, according to an online note from the district.
An information session for parents has been set for 7 p.m. Thursday at the district’s administrative offices, 834 Leonardville Road, Leonardo.
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A year ago, Middletown schools announced that showed high concentrations of lead were found at locations in River Plaza Elementary as well as Bayshore and Thorne middle schools.
"During that time, we had to remediate five access points; three last year and two this year."

UTEP students, companies aid Haiti water access.
Six University of Texas at El Paso civil engineering students will travel to Haiti to install a water filtration system that they designed.
The group, with their professor Ivonne Santiago, partnered with Solar Smart Living and Industrial Water Services on the humanitarian mission.
"People don’t understand how amazing it is to have tap water at a moment’s notice to people that have to spend two hours traveling across a lake to get the same thing," he added.
The students adapted a design suggested by the partner companies that specialize in reverse osmosis and solar power.
Paul Diaz, vice president of Industrial Water Services, said it was hard to view the project as another industrial project.
The system will be installed at a site in Haiti in six to eight weeks and will serve residents of Po Ploom.
The students have been working on the water system since August and recently tested the system in El Paso before it heads to Haiti in a large metal shipping container.
The students, company representatives and Santiago will leave in June to help install the system.
Locals in Po Ploom will be responsible for day-to-day maintenance of the system, but once installed, both the water treatment unit and solar system will be monitored remotely by Santiago.

NRDC: One in Every Four American Households May Not Have Access to Safe Drinking Water.
The Natural Resources Defense Council authored a report which investigated water quality violations across the country.
From coast to coast, the NRDC found 80,000 violations, ranging from the presence of arsenic to nitrate contamination.
Taken out of the abstract and given a number, that’s about 77 million citizens who can’t be sure what’s flowing through their pipes beside water.
Among the Council’s foremost worries is that the Trump administration may not be fully committed to keeping Americans’ water clean.
“America is facing a nationwide drinking water crisis that goes well beyond lead contamination,” said Olson, who also co-authored the report.
“The problem is two-fold: there’s no cop on the beat enforcing or drinking water laws, and we’re living on borrowed time with our ancient, deteriorating water infrastructure.
We take it for granted that when we turn on our kitchen tap, the water will be safe and healthy, but we have a long way to go before that is reality across our country.” The report summary, released on the NRDC website and reported on by The New York Times and other publications, implied that Trump’s commitment to preserving “crystal clear water” may run afoul of reality.
Budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency could strain resources which are already applied inefficiently and late.
Among the most widely-publicized failures of the EPA as well as public government to provide safe drinking water to its residents is that of Flint.

The standard of drinking water in India has improved in the last five years but a lot of work still remains to be done, the head of the World Water Council has said.
World Water Council (WWC) recently carried out a major survey on water awareness in major parts of the world, including India.
Of course, there’s still a lot of work to do there,” Braga told PTI.
A majority (71 per cent) of Indians said that safe drinking water had improved over the last five years.
The survey stated that 62 per cent of the Indians said they believed that the government was doing enough to support access to safe drinking water.
Referring to the ‘Swachha Bharat Campaign’, Braga praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his efforts towards clean drinking water and sanitation.
He has even appointed a special secretary in the ministry of water resources to deal with the Ganga River cleanup,” he said.
“I understand there is a major effort from the current aid in government towards improving water and sanitation access in the country.
“World leaders realise that sanitation is fundamental to public health, but we need to act now.
In order to make water and sanitation universally available by 2030, we need commitment at the highest levels.

Ron Churchill, Kevin Dumas, Paul Heroux and Jose Lemus — and anyone who might unexpectedly join you in the field of candidates for mayor of Attleboro — what’s your position on public access to Manchester Reservoir, the city’s biggest drinking water source?
Yet city ordinance forbids use of it for any passive recreation other than fishing.
The rules for Scituate Reservoir, which supplies water for most of Rhode Island’s population, include a ban on fishing.
In April 2014, Mayor Dumas asked the city council to do just that by amending the fishing-only ordinance to also allow passive recreation.
“I think we’re probably pretty close,” he told staff writer George Rhodes in May 2015.
This three-year span on the ordinance proposal is only a small slice of the time that Manchester access has been a controversy at city hall.
The council may well vote in favor of allowing passive recreation at Manchester, lifting a ban that has been widely ignored since it was first put on the books.
But little satisfaction will come if it does not also provide for public access to the reservoir in the form of allowing parking somewhere — somewhere other than Beagle Club Road.
If it were, someone already would have a place to develop an alternative parking area.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt on Friday joined Democrats and Republicans to reaffirm the agency’s commitment to communities outside of Chicago hit by high levels of lead contamination.
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"The recent meeting in East Chicago signals our renewed commitment to restore public trust by improving communication and coordination and delivering real solutions for protecting health and public safety in the community, especially for the families impacted by the closure of West Calumet Housing Complex," read a joint statement by Pruitt and Democratic and Republican lawmakers, as well as Republican Indiana Gov.
Eric Holcomb.
Pruitt had made visiting the city a top priority in a tour of the nation in April to promote the EPA’s refocus on clean water and clean air.
Critics had underscored proposed cuts to the EPA budget as a serious problem in managing the cleanup effort, although Pruitt has fought those characterizations.
The Trump budget blueprint calls for deep cuts at the agency across a number of programs.
"The painful personal stories of East Chicago residents will guide us as we chart a new path forward, and we are extremely grateful to each person who bravely shared their comments," according to the statement, signed by Sens.
Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Todd Young, R-Ind., as well as Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Ind., and East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland.
EPA and Indiana environmental regulators "will continue efforts to remediate the Superfund site and work to ensure safe drinking water is provided through the city’s public water system," the joint statement explained.

UAE Will Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Quench Drinking Water Problem.
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The iceberg could produce micro-climates and bathe the arid landscape in rain, Shehi added.
The company predicts that it could take up to a year to tow an iceberg to the country, specifically to Fujairah where the water is deep enough to accommodate the floating island.
What’s in store for the UAE’s drinking water then?
The icebergs could hold up to 750 billion liters of fresh water, Shehi said, adding that the government has found the plan sound and is now seeking funds for it.
Blocks of ice will be taken above the waterline and crushed into water before they will be stored in massive tanks and professionally filtered.

Atlas Copco USA’s Water for All Program Helps Navajo Special Education School Access Clean Water.
ROCK HILL, S.C., May 5, 2017 /3BL Media/ — Atlas Copco USA’s Water for All organization recently donated to human rights non-profit DigDeep to support St. Michaels Association for Special Education (SMASE) in Window Rock, A.Z., the only special needs school on the Navajo Reservation.
The school needs potable water to clean sensitive medical equipment, such as tracheotomy and gastrostomy tubes, but the water contains high amounts of lead and arsenic, ranges from yellow to brown in color, and leaves behind a white, grainy film.
“When I run out of bottled water in my classroom, I’m frantically running from building to building trying to get enough water to give a student her medicine.
It’s very stressful.” SMASE is partnering with DigDeep, a human rights non-profit working to ensure that every American has clean, running water, to build a water treatment system that will supply safe water to sinks, toilets and showers in the school.
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DIGDEEP’s focus on both water access and conservation is unique, and DIGDEEP is the only global water non-profit building water projects with marginalized communities here in the U.S. — where more than 1.7 million people still don’t have it.
DIGDEEP is committed to changing the way people think about water, and 100% of all donations support projects in the field.

UTEP Students Help Provide Clean Drinking Water to Haiti Community.
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – Six undergraduate civil engineering students and their professor are making a difference overseas by helping to bring safe drinking water to hundreds of families in Haiti.
The UTEP students partnered with two Borderland companies to develop a solar-powered water system that’s going to benefit 500 people.
Ivonne Santiago, clinical professor of civil engineering, says the project was made possible through an anonymous donor from Tennessee.
According to Santiago, there’s no electricity in the community where the system will be installed, and the only source of water residents have is a nearby lake.
"The problem here is that the source of water is salty, it’s brackish, so it’s not safe for drinking.
So with reverse osmosis, what we do is filter out all the salts."
In 6-8 weeks, Santiago and her students will go install the equipment in Haiti.
"Civil engineering is a people-serving profession, so this is a prime example of how we can use our knowledge and our skills for the benefit of our community.
In this case, it’s an international community."

In connection with the World Water Day, GreentechLead identified a few companies that provide innovative solutions to address the water issues the society is facing.
SPOUTS of Water provides Ugandan communities with increased access to safe drinking water by manufacturing and distributing affordable ceramic water filters.
To address this problem, SPOUTS created the Purifaaya, the only locally manufactured water filter in Uganda.
The Purifaaya is affordable even to poorer communities at $22, providing a tested solution to people who need it most.
Since the first sale in 2015, SPOUTS has provided over 80,000 individuals in 200 different communities across Uganda with access to clean drinking water.
Dispensers for Safe Water places chlorine dispensers in the immediate vicinity of other water sources.
Because chlorine dispensers avert carbon emissions — people do not need energy to boil water to disinfect it — we are generating credits.
Jibu Jibu is rooted in the belief that the ultimate solution to the water challenge is eye-to-eye partnership with local owners.
Through a social franchise model, Jibu is launching drinking water businesses in urban and peri-urban areas where the local water sources are unsafe to drink.
Through efficient technology and distribution, Jibu franchises are making safe water accessible and affordable to entire communities.