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Today the Poway Unified School District is testing water for lead at 12 campuses. The district sent a letter to parents to notify them of the testing, which will run through mid-June. The affected campuses include: Chaparral, Garden Road, Midland, Painted Rock, Pomerado, Tierra Bonita, and Valley Elementary schools, Meadowbrook and Twin Peaks middle schools, Abraxas and Poway high schools, and the CTE/Adult Education campus. The PUSD will also be requesting lead testing for its remaining schools served by the City of San Diego and Olivenhain Municipal Water District.

Following the formal end of California’s drought state of emergency in April, the Glendale City Council eased water-use restrictions during a meeting last week, although Glendale Water & Power customers must still adhere to the city’s own water-conservation policies.

In 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown issued mandatory water-use restrictions across the state. The Glendale City Council quickly adopted an ordinance that limited watering to just two days a week, known as phase three of conservation.

America is due for new pipes, aqueducts and water mains, and the public is probably going to pay for it. Aging water systems will need a repair — either by prudent maintenance or in response to water main breaks — and utilities will have to pass the costs on to consumers. Exactly how much and where is the question answered by a paper published in PLOS One. The Environmental Protection Agency says that an “unaffordable” water bill is one that exceeds 4.5 percent of a household’s income. Now, about 12 percent of Americans have water bills at that level.