living in :amerikkka: has me so fucked up lately that just skimming these articles about lead pipes made me hysterical [probably just the brain damage from all of that lead though]
Love that in the 21st century the cult of “personal responsibility” extends to basic utilities. No home lead filtration? Pull your poisoning up by the bootstraps, Jack! :biden-rember:
Part of me thinks that the Dems are pro-solar purely so that the notion of the provision of power infrastructure beyond a Musk battery in your basement is destroyed.
A lot of the piping is treated and sealed such that they shouldn't be dumping their toxic particles into whatever they're piping around. But when you run a solvent through those pipes, it breaks down the seals and exposes the water to contamination.
Flint was a textbook case. The pipes had been used without issue for years, but only because the water they trafficked was properly treated and clean. When the state switched Flint's water source to a cheaper, dirtier source, it eroded the piping and released lead contamination.
That's not to even say these pipes shouldn't have been replaced decades ago, on principle. It is simply to say that we're seeing a compounding crisis through both misuse and neglect.
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living in :amerikkka: has me so fucked up lately that just skimming these articles about lead pipes made me hysterical [probably just the brain damage from all of that lead though]
america is a very silly place
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Love that in the 21st century the cult of “personal responsibility” extends to basic utilities. No home lead filtration? Pull your poisoning up by the bootstraps, Jack! :biden-rember:
Part of me thinks that the Dems are pro-solar purely so that the notion of the provision of power infrastructure beyond a Musk battery in your basement is destroyed.
Yup
A lot of the piping is treated and sealed such that they shouldn't be dumping their toxic particles into whatever they're piping around. But when you run a solvent through those pipes, it breaks down the seals and exposes the water to contamination.
Flint was a textbook case. The pipes had been used without issue for years, but only because the water they trafficked was properly treated and clean. When the state switched Flint's water source to a cheaper, dirtier source, it eroded the piping and released lead contamination.
That's not to even say these pipes shouldn't have been replaced decades ago, on principle. It is simply to say that we're seeing a compounding crisis through both misuse and neglect.