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Cattledog

(5,916 posts)
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 12:47 PM Mar 2017

After therapy dog refuses to drink, school finds lead in water.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sd-water-lead-20170324-story.html

A dog’s reluctance to drink from a bowl in a San Diego classroom led to the discovery of lead in the school’s water system, and testing of all pipes in the San Diego Unified School District will begin soon.

According to a notice sent Friday to parents and staff members at Emerson-Bandini Elementary and San Diego Co-Operative Charter School 2, which share a single campus, a teacher at the charter school noticed her therapy dog would not drink from a bowl filled with water from the classroom sink on Jan. 26.

The teacher then saw a sheen on the water, which led to the district sampling numerous water outlets on the campus. After detecting contaminants that exceeded the state’s allowable level, the district contacted its water provider, the city of San Diego, which has agreed to test all district properties, including its 187 campuses, at no cost.
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After therapy dog refuses to drink, school finds lead in water. (Original Post) Cattledog Mar 2017 OP
We should use dogs to test ALL drinking water angstlessk Mar 2017 #1
No Submariner Mar 2017 #2
touche with a tilde over the e angstlessk Mar 2017 #3
Maybe they already drank that water. Liberty Belle Mar 2017 #4
rethug tasters won't work, they are already so contaminated they no longer have a keen sense of KewlKat Mar 2017 #5

Liberty Belle

(9,535 posts)
4. Maybe they already drank that water.
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 01:37 PM
Mar 2017

Could explain why many of them seem a few brain cells short of a functioning IQ.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
5. rethug tasters won't work, they are already so contaminated they no longer have a keen sense of
Sat Mar 25, 2017, 01:38 PM
Mar 2017

smell or anything else for that matter..............

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