Get out of here with your fact-based science, it sounds like you did your own research. We don’t like that. Please comply.
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Bassman1805@lemmy.world 1 day agoLead pipes are less of an issue that it would seem, as the pipes quickly develop a layer of calcium salts on the inside, preventing the water from actually coming into contact with the lead.
By all means, they need replaced. But they’re nowhere near the contributor that leaded gasoline was.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Wilco@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Agreed, fake news. Trump didn’t say this so it isn’t true. Lead never hurt no one. (Ever noticed MAGA’s double negative usage?)
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
That’s right, water never leaves scale deposits in pipes. Only in hot water tanks and faucets. In between, magic.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lead gasoline for cars is gone. Lead pipes are still around.
You’re concerned about the big problem that we already solved? Bro, you need to re-prioritize.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This right here.
If people remember the lead in drinking water contamination in Flint Michigan, its because they had lead pipes that were well coated with the protective layers and had no trouble with lead in water. Then the newly elected city manager changed water sources to cut costs against the advice of the water engineers in the city. The other source of water was more acidic and stripped out all that protective coating and suddenly there’s huge amounts of lead in the drinking water from the pipes.