{"id":12044,"date":"2019-10-04T16:31:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paawwa.org\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2019-10-04T16:31:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T20:31:06","slug":"reducing-lead-levels-in-drinking-water-in-schools-and-child-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/reducing-lead-levels-in-drinking-water-in-schools-and-child-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Reducing Lead Levels in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOU on Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An MOU on Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities was recently signed by EPA and its numerous water industry partners including AWWA, NRWA, the states and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2019-10\/documents\/mou_reducing_lead_in_drinking_water_in_schools_final_october_3_2019.pdf\">https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2019-10\/documents\/mou_reducing_lead_in_drinking_water_in_schools_final_october_3_2019.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The signatories agree to encourage schools and child care facilities to take such steps, including training on lead; testing drinking water for lead; disseminating results to parents, students, staff, and other interested stakeholders; and facilitating appropriate corrective actions. <strong>The signatories also agree to encourage the drinking water community to assist schools and child care facilities in their efforts to understand and reduce lead exposure from drinking water.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patti Kay Wisniewski<\/p>\n<p>Drinking Water Preparedness and Resiliency Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>US EPA Region 3<\/p>\n<p>Drinking Water Section (3WD21)<\/p>\n<p>Water Division<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note new organization name and mail code <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1650 Arch Street<\/p>\n<p>Phila, PA\u00a0 19103<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>215-814-5668<\/p>\n<p>Cell: 215-514-7893<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Wisniewski.patti-kay@epa.gov\">Wisniewski.patti-kay@epa.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(note the hyphen appears in email only)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOU on Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities An MOU on Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities was recently signed by EPA and its numerous water industry partners including AWWA, NRWA, the states and others. https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2019-10\/documents\/mou_reducing_lead_in_drinking_water_in_schools_final_october_3_2019.pdf The signatories agree to encourage schools and child care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,14,7,5,11,10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12049,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.linnflux.tech\/paawwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}