Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...group of students will be testing tap water in all of Harvard's undergraduate dorms this week to determine whether it contains hazardous levels of lead...
...investigation is being sponsored by The Harvard Salient, a politically conservative journal, which will publish test results in two weeks. "We've all seen brown, yellow or funny-tasting water," said Salient editor Ronald Granieri '89. "We thought it would be neat to find out if there's any lead...
Effie Anagnostopoulos '92, the Salient staffer who is supervising the tests, said she and several freshman volunteers have taken water samples from each of the Yard dorms and from Cabot House, and plan to take samples from all of the other residential Houses within the next few days...
Anagnostopoulos, a student in Chemistry 10, said she plans to test the water this weekend in a Harvard chemistry...
John M. Price, the University's industrial hygienist, said students have no particular reason to worry about lead poisoning. He said water discoloration "is independent of lead--that would just be some rust." University officials have also said harmless levels of manganese dioxide in the water contribute to the color...