President Biden has announced a plan to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years."

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.

  • 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5919·
    10 months ago

    Just another day on which I as a European am absolutely shocked how shit the quality of life in the US is.

    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world
      513·
      10 months ago

      Europe has lead pipes as well, buddy.

      They’re perfectly safe as long as idiots don’t change the water supply to one that’s more acidic without buffering the pH.

      Hell, England and Wales have nearly 3x more than the entire US.

      • bluGill@kbin.social
        231·
        10 months ago

        That isn’t perfectly safe. That is normally safe, but once in a while something will go wrong and they become unsafe.

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          If it goes wrong long enough after the pipes have been in service it’s barely an issue iirc because there is now a coat of corroded lead inside the pipes that does not cause lead poisoning

      • crystal@feddit.de
        13·
        10 months ago

        When people say europe they usually aren’t thinking of countries such as Russia, Turkey, or the UK.

        • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
          6·
          10 months ago

          What. I can maybe give you Russia (“Eastern Europe”) and Turkey (seems more culturally Middle East than Europe), but most people are absolutely thinking of the UK. What other group would they be part of?

    • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world
      91·
      10 months ago

      It’s worth noting that 9.2 million homes is an extremely small percentage of American homes and I’d say almost all of them are extremely rural homes or dying rural towns that just need relocated. Think of North Dakota as akin to the Siberian oblasts or northern Finland, neither get a lot of infrastructure care because no almost one is there. This is the Biden admin trying to look out for the little guy that’s been ignored the last century