Students and faculty advocate for stricter protections for lead in drinking water

Students and faculty advocate for stricter protections for lead in drinking water

The Environmental Protection Agency says there is “no safe level of exposure to lead” in drinking water, but at the University of Oregon, testing has grown increasingly infrequent, leading some professors and students to advocate for regularly updated data and lowering the acceptable lead limits. Increasing testing and transparency were considered by the UO Senate last year, and the graduate employee union has been bargaining over lead protectio…