; (3) deterioration and aging of the water infrastructure of the United States has resulted in millions of people of the United States being exposed to unsafe drinking water, including lead contamination; (4) exposure to lead can cause serious health problems, especially to young children and pregnant women, including damage to the brain and nervous system, kidney problems, and high blood pressure; (5) the Government Accountability Office estimates that 43 percent of school districts, serving 35,000,000 students, tested for lead in school drinking water in 2016 or 2017; (6) of the schools that tested for lead as described in paragraph (5), an estimated 37 percent found levels of lead above the threshold of the school district for taking remedial action; (7) according to the American Water Works Association, approximately 30 percent of surveyed community water systems in the United States reported having some lead-containing service lines; (8) the continuing emergency of drinking water contamination in communities like Flint, Michigan, demonstrates the severity of this crisis across the United States; (9) many rural areas across the United States also face severe drinking water challenges, as the community water systems serving small populations in the United States often lack sufficient financial and technical resources; (10) boil water advisories are a daily occurrence in the United States, and those advisories disproportionately impact small drinking water systems, with some advisories in rural areas lasting for years; (11) it is estimated that 13,000,000 households in the United States rely on well water, with no Federal regulation or testing of contaminants; (12) past appropriations for the Environmental Protection Agency grant programs that address school drinking water and drinking water contamination in high-risk communities are not sufficient to address the tremendous need throughout the United States