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August 15, 2019

Newark Officials Suspend Bottled Water Distribution as Lead Crisis Grows
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Newark, New Jersey's water crisis grew worse as authorities temporarily
halted their distribution of bottled water to families whose tap water
is contaminated with lead. Earlier this week, the Environmental
Protection Agency told city officials to distribute bottled water "as
soon as possible," after it determined that water filters were
ineffective at safely filtering lead from the water supply of thousands
of homes. State and local officials began offering free bottled water to
15,000 Newark households, and hundreds of people queued in long lines in
the summer heat for their allotment. But the officials stopped handing
out the water after discovering many of the bottles had exceeded their
best-by date.


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