EPA has 15 billion to replace 9.2M lead service lines by 2031. At current pace it will take 50+ years. Children in homes built before 1986 drink through lead solder joints. No safe level of lead for children.
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Lead in Your Pipes: The Pediatric Emergency Nobody Is Fixing Fast Enough (Make Water Your Business Ch.11)
“Lead pipes are the pediatric emergency nobody is fixing fast enough. Chapter 11 of Make Water Your Business lays out the scale — millions of service lines still in place, the most exposed populations disproportionately low-income and Black — and the developmental cost of even low-level lead exposure on children. For parents of young kids, this is the chapter that changes the shopping list.”Why Glen chose it