Lead leaching from pipes into drinking water is an issue nationwide, though it is especially salient in Michigan, where the Flint water crisis became an infamous example of government failing to protect people from environmental health hazards.

Residents in Grand Rapids, Wyoming, Kentwood, Grandville, Allendale, Coopersville, Grand Haven, Holland, Spring Lake, Muskegon, Ada, and Walker rely on city water supplies that are primarily sourced from municipal groundwater (wells).