2021 Honorable Mention Award Recipient

Clean Water for Carolina Kids

Organization

RTI International

Program

Clean Water for Carolina Kids

Partners

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services / Division of Public Health

Duke Environmental Law and Policy Center

NC Child

Clean Water for Carolina Kids

RTI International

3040 East Cornwallis Road
Durham, NC 27709

Jennifer Hoponick Redmon
MSES, MPA, CHMM
Senior Environmental Health Scientist and Program Director

919.541.6000

Infants and children need access to safe drinking water. Yet, the health of millions of our youngest citizens may be at risk because of toxic lead in the piping and plumbing in the childcare centers and schools where they play and learn.

94%

Percent of 4,400 licensed childcare centers in North Carolina that have participated in the program

230,000+

North Carolina children (ages 6 and younger) who now have access to safe drinking water

As a result of Clean Water for Carolina Kids’ unique citizen scientist approach to collecting water samples, more than 94% of licensed childcare centers in North Carolina have already completed testing. No other state in the Southeast has reached this level of testing to assure safe drinking water for children.”

Ed Norman

MPH, Program Manager, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services,
Environmental Health Section

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