Lead Contamination In Our Environment
Carolyn Kinder
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According to the Alliance to End Childhood lead Poisoning (1995). Environmental and blood lead levels are higher in urban areas than in suburban and rural areas. Poor and disadvantaged populations are more exposed to lead poisoning because poor nourishment increases the amount of ingested lead that is absorbed by the body. Limited water supplies in the body can impede efforts to wash lead out of living spaces. The poor and disadvantaged are more likely to live in neighbor hoods of lead-polluting industries. However, lead poisoning crosses all racial, geographic, and socioeconomic boundaries.