Chicago drinking fountains have been running nonstop for months.

Grist
By Kate YoderJul 27, 2017, 4:09 pm136 pts
Officials disabled the push buttons on more than 100 drinking fountains in the city’s parks earlier this year, claiming that continuously flowing water significantly reduces hazardous lead levels. About 45o Chicago park fountains registered “dangerously high” lead levels when tested in 2016. Some were…

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