I recently found out the water at the place I'm staying is definitely full of lead cuz all the plumbing fixtures were put together with lead solder (recently too :( )

So I've been drinking the filtered water you can get in those refillable 20 liter bottles

Could someone send $10 so I can go refill this container and maybe get some food?

All I have rn is my cash app at $paxxap

Thank you for reading <3

Edit: Someone sent me $10! Thank you so much

soviet-heart

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I get your concern but it's quite unlikely that you get lead poisoning from solder. It's sufficient to let the water run for a while to be sure that any dangerous levels of lead are gone. Water has to be stagnant in full lead pipes for a certain time to be contaminating your water.

    But yeah, better safe than sorry. I'm not sure about building codes around there but maybe you could escalate your concerns so this can be looked at by an expert?

    • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]
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      8 months ago

      Yeahh, maybe you're right. It just scares me a lot especially with how recent the work is

      I'm living with family at the moment so there's not really a lot I can do about it. It's literally illegal to be using that shit for drinking water-related plumbing in 2024 but they don't really care...