Lead in Drinking Water in Child Care Facilities: Ensuring the Future for New Jersey’s Children

This Jersey Water Works report identifies 10 priority recommendations to protect young children from lead in drinking water in the state’s regulated child care facilities. It is designed to achieve the overarching goal that within 10 years, no children in regulated child care facilities in New Jersey, including licensed facilities and registered FCC homes, are at risk of lead exposure from drinking water due to a coordinated program of water testing, remediation, funding, communications, and regulations.