Drinking water not affected by toxins

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Toxins have seeped into the ground near the University of Memphis, but the Environmental Protection Agency and Memphis Light Gas and Water both claim the drinking water has not been affected. Federal and Tennessee agencies are holding meetings to update the public on the superfund site. The former dry cleaner site has five testing wells driven into the soil to gauge the flow of the toxins in the soil and if it seeped into the ground water below. Trending stories: The EPA collected data beginning July…

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…