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- upliftingnews@lemmy.world
President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.
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TIL that lead pipes carrying drinking water are still used in the States.
Suddenly SO MUCH makes sense.
It’s not exactly an easy fix. You’re talking about digging up entire cities and replacing their water pipes. Obviously, it needs to be done, but the cost and the logistics are a nightmare.
Might want to check on the pipes where you live before you make jokes
They just haven’t replaced. No new construction has been able to use them for decades
In many places, the water mains have been replaced over the years, but no one wants to spend money on lines up to people’s houses
Lead pipes are still in use all over the world, including europe
Which is why I only drink from my reverse osmosis filter. My brain still works, for now, those micro plastics are getting everywhere.
Typical Democrat, trying to reduce mental illness and therefore reduce Republican support.
That’s gonna cost a lot more than $2.6 billion, but I’m glad it’s at least on the todo list.
The $2.6 billion is just the latest round of funding for this. Generally every once in a while, you’ll see one or two billion in funding announced for lead pipe removal.
Edit: I just looked it up, and the state with the second-most lead pipes, Illinois, estimates $11.6 billion to get rid of their 667,000 known lead pipes, and there are over 800,000 whose material is unknown.
Edit 2: it looks like $20 to $30 billion is the overall estimate.
This is a conspiracy to weaken the Republican party!
GOP: tHeRe CoMiNg FuR YeR LeD PiPeS YaLL!
fucking hilarious thumbnail.
Trump will get elected, claim that fixing the pipes is wasteful government spending, and cancel the whole plan.
Think of all the jubs created!
You have ten years to do something you’ve known needed to be done for over twenty. My bet is in ten years they will be given another ten year “deadline”, if whatever mechanism Biden established to enforce this even exists at that point. Same dance they do with climate regs.
So anyone with lead in their pipes has to continue to be poisoned for up to ten years before the government generously deems them worthy of clean water.
