Canada’s Water Has a Lead Problem

 

Global News · Curiouscast · Nov 4, 2019 6:07 PM


 
 

A new investigation by over a hundred journalists from across the country has found that Canadians could be consuming tap water laced with high levels of lead leaching from aging infrastructure and plumbing.

Host Tamara Khandaker is back and she’s talking to Global News reporter Mike De Souza, one of the journalists who’s spent the past year working on this investigation. How much lead is in our water? How is it only now becoming clear how serious a problem this is? And how do we go about fixing it?