Avoiding the next Flint: Testing school water

First lady Michelle Obama and other health advocates have been urging kids to drink more water as a healthy alternative to sugary drinks — but for decades, the federal government has done almost nothing to ensure that school tap water is free from harmful pollutants.

In the wake of the contamination crisis in Flint, Mich, members of Congress and health groups are now looking to use a spending bill and an obscure provision of a 2010 child nutrition law to get schools to test their water for high levels of lead, cadmium and other dangerous contaminants -- and to make Congress pay for it.

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