HOUSEHOLDS with lead water pipes could be drinking water with levels 5,000 times higher than recommended, it was revealed.
Samples taken the previous year found lead levels in some Blackburn households containing 1,000 times the then recommended limit of 50 microgrammes per litre.
But the World Health Organisation was recommending that the standard be tightened to one fifth of the former level.
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