Crowd the Tap: Empowering Communities to Examine Their Lead Exposure - Citizen Science Salon

Crowd the Tap: Empowering Communities to Examine Their Lead Exposure - Citizen Science Salon: Lead water pipes have been a fixture of modern civilization for more than two thousand years.  Ancient Romans channeled water into homes and bathhouses through lead piping. In fact, the Latin word for lead, plumbum, is where we get the English word “plumbing.” Yet we have also long recognized that lead can have a serious …