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Biden announces proposal to replace all lead water service lines in US within 10 years (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Biden administration has announced a proposal to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the White House, more than 9.2 million American households connect to water through lead pipes and lead service lines and, due to “decades of inequitable infrastructure development and underinvestment,” many Americans are at risk of lead exposure.

“There is no safe level of exposure to lead, particularly for children, and eliminating lead exposure from the air, water, and homes is a crucial component of the Biden-Harris Administration’s historic commitment to advancing environmental justice,” the Biden administration said.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

You obviously don’t understand

I assure you I am fully aware of the many ways lead has made its way into water in both Europe and the US including literal lead pipes. Actual lead pipes have been banned in the US since 1986 as per my link but of course many remain.

Denmark appears to be ahead of most of Europe, but it's not just former soviet countries that struggle. England and Wales have lead pipes running to an estimated 25% of households and don't expect that problem to be cleared up by 2040 or later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

England and Wales are no more EU though, they don't have to follow EU regulations.

But yeah many EU countries still have some areas with lead pipes, even Germany, France and so on. It seems to be hard to track

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

They're still in Europe, and I said Europe, not the EU. Also Brexit was in 2020 and I'm relatively certain those pipes were there before that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah I forgot UK, but to be fair it's about 45 years since I heard they still used it, despite evidence dating back to the Roman empire that it is toxic. I got the impression UK was the only place in Europe that still used it, obviously possibly excluding the soviet block who were always way way behind on everything.

Still to claim EU isn't ahead of USA is wrong:

https://www.thermofisher.com/blog/metals/an-update-on-the-lead-free-by-2014-mandate-europe/

Apparently Ireland had a problem too, but apart from that the problems are mostly old German buildings that have led in their plumbing.And then Italy that has led lined aqueducts that aren't used anymore, why that's worth mentioning in the report IDK?

So I maintain EU doesn't have nearly the quality problems USA has with water supply, not with led and not with any other toxins. IDK why England is so backwards in this regard, but maybe it's because they had the first industrialization in the world, and safety wasn't as much of an issue back then.