The [Environmental Protection Agency] has set a 10-year deadline for most utilities to replace lead service lines, but omitted requirements for schools to replace the water fountains or plumbing that have lead components.
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K-12 age children. Famous for their resistance to lead poisoning.
Lolmurica
“Didn’t bother me none!” -some fucking Boomer
To be fair, if everything in the system leading up to the school is lead free there should be minimal leeching only happening in the school pipes.
If the pipes in the school have any sediment buildup sequestering the lead from the water there would be little to no leeching.
Definitely looks bad when you say “keep lead pipes in schools” but the reality is still something like “95% of lead removed from water coming out of school taps”
Also, might make schools likely to remove lead pipes if the system is lead free. No point in removing lead pipes from a school if there’s +20 miles of lead pipe leading to/from the school
Still, the safe level of lead is zero. That last 5% is still detrimental.
It makes sense. How else will they get the next generation of Republican voters?
I just said to a friend of mine this morning, “do you think we’re all weird as fuck because of all the lead fumes we were breathing in from all the cars when we were kids?”
But I guess the lead poisoning has gone on unabated regardless, so we don’t have that excuse.
Lead exposure doesn’t make you weird, it makes you dumber and increases your risk of cardiovascular problems and dementia later in life.
Air lead exposure in the US dropped off a cliff in the late 70s, people born after 1980 had very little lead exposure from the air on a population level
I was born in 1977.
It decreases inhibition as well. IIRC, that’s one reason it’s hypothesised lead exposure contributed to the crime waves, and why blood lead levels are correlated to incarceration.
Why not both?
America avoiding giving money to low income schools?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.
We learned nothing from the Roman empire.
Better idea… If it’s a problem with cost, then only fix the schools.
You can bring water to school from home.
It’s harder to carry water home for the whole family.
I’ve never drank water from school even once in my life.
We live in the worst timeline.
Bizarro EPA
Environmental Devestation Agency
Gotta keep the population stupid and complacent somehow.
