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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] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (9 children)

Here you go.

"An initial estimate is that 25% of domestic dwellings in the EU have a lead pipe, either as a connection to the water main, or as part of the internal plumbing, or both, potentially putting 120 million people at risk from lead in drinking water within the EU. "

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

As of 14 years ago! And Europe has a lot of former communist countries that hasn't fully reached Western European standards yet.
Led has been illegal to use in many contexts for decades in EU, including water pipes, and for instance electrical wiring and soldering.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (7 children)

At what level though and how was the lead content assessed?

High levels of lead has been illegal to use in US water systems since 1986. Regulations have gotten more and more strict since then. The EPA's current goal is ZERO lead, but we still have too much in the water.

It just doesn't appear to be that much better in the EU, if at all.

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

https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/668177/-/comment/3862164

In short:
since 2013 EU has 10 ug/L limit. since 2020 a goal was set for 5 ug/L to be achieved until 2036.

EPA current limit is 15 ug/L. Yes, they have set a 0 goal, but with apparently no timeline, so until than there will still be many areas with 15 ug/L. Bidens proposal would probably set this 0 goal into a 10 year timeframe, making it much better than the EU goal.

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

It should be noted that 0 is probably not realistic at all because even bottled water is allowed to have 5. His plan is to replace the service lines, but people in older houses can still have internal lead piping. This is mostly the issue with the UK's water. There's pretty much no lead (<2, which is background levels tbh) going to people's houses, but because we've got a load of 100+ year old houses all over the place, they will still have more lead than people in newer homes.

But I don't think the level is really the issue. <15 is probably fine.

The issue is that a bunch of poor people get a lot more than that and nobody has done anything about it. This plan should have been announced in 2014 when the problem first occurred at Flint.

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