There’s a lead contamination emergency making national headlines and drawing comparisons to the Flint Water Crisis, and it’s in Newark, New Jersey. For more than a week, thousands of residents in the city have lined up to collect bottled water because their tap water is unsafe.
But public health experts are saying Newark’s crisis is different than Flint’s, because in Flint there was a clear event — switching the city’s water source to the Flint River — that triggered the problem. In Newark, no one knows how long it has been going on, or the estimated level of damage done to public
