Students banned from drinking school water amid lead contamination fears

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan is demanding answers from state bureaucrats who failed to test new schools for lead contamination, forcing hundreds of Perth students to drink bottled water yesterday. Two schools, Doubleview Primary School and Southern Grove Primary School, have now been cleared. But Rapids Landing Primary School, Aveley North Primary School and Aveley Secondary College students are still banned from drinking from the taps at their schools. Mr McGowan is blaming public servants, who did…

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