Update: City says water at Jacob Riis Houses is safe to drink, Mayor Adams and Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan both drank a glass of it today.
"Really wanted to show with our Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Commissioner Dr. Vasan and the rest of the team as we tell the Riis Houses residents that it's OK to drink the water," Adams said."I'm drinking it. The water's safe to drink."
As CBS2's Christina Fan reports, it turns out the water may have been safe to use all this time. The city say the laboratory that provided the initial test results retracted its claims and - even worse - admitted to being the ones that introduced arsenic in the samples. They were trying to get to the bottom of a weeklong"do not drink" advisory regarding their tap water.
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