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Energy & Environment Briana Heaney,

West Virginia American Water Wants To Know If Your Homes Pipes Have Lead

The company is asking customers to check their home’s water piping system for lead. Their website has information that customers can use to identify lead, which is a neurotoxin. Then customers are asked to log that information into an interactive map.

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Energy & Environment Eric Douglas,

WVU Researcher Investigates ‘Biofilms’ In Water Pipes

For most of us, we turn on the water faucet and clean water comes out. But we may not realize the water pipes that deliver the water to our homes have a micro slime inside them.

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