Schools May Foul the Drinking Water, Endanger and Damage Children
Water in schools is vital to the health of our children as they sit in class or play activities. But are schools doing all they can with water to protect them?
Water, not bread, is the stuff of life. The body needs clean water to maintain all of its vital life-promoting activities. Without water, we could live only about three days.
With so many voices and so much energy being pushed forth to reopen the schools and get the kids back into the classroom, we have to begin to ask several fundamental questions. And these do not concern the Covid-19 virus pandemic.
Question one, which would never have occurred to us in the past, is whether there is clean, lead-free, bacteria-free water in the fountains, the sinks, the toilets, and the showers in the schools.
We take it for granted that schools are safe places for our children and we assume that any water they will be drinking will be good for them. But that’s not necessarily the case.
In a low-income area on the West Coast of the United States, one of the teachers…
