High school students in the United States create a low-cost filter to remove lead from water

Bushway has presented the prototype at four conferences, including the American Chemistry Society's annual spring meeting, and expects to publish a manuscript in a peer-reviewed publication.

When the pandemic forced schools to close, Rebecca Bushway, a science teacher in Washington, D.C., set her students an ambitious task: design and build a low-cost lead filter that attaches to faucets and removes the poisonous metal.