Siddartha Roy

Virginia Tech

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Graduate researcher in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech

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Lead in the water supply has created a public health crisis in Flint, Michigan -- and provided a wake-up call to the rest of the country.

Lead Poison: America's "Silent Epidemic"

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