The presence of lead in the District’s water pipes has been an issue in the city for years. But a report written by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reaffirms that lead in Washington’s water remains a very real and wide-spread problem. As reported in the Washington Post, the new CDC report states that 15,000 homes in the District who get their water from pipes which were partially removed in 2006 might be drinking water with “dangerous” levels of lead.