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The [Environmental Protection Agency] has set a 10-year deadline for most utilities to replace lead service lines, but omitted requirements for schools to replace the water fountains or plumbing that have lead components.

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[–] RangerJosie 146 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

K-12 age children. Famous for their resistance to lead poisoning.

Lolmurica

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You just have to keep exposing them to it to help build their tolerance. Eventually, they won’t even get hurt when you hit them with a lead pipe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thats why I shoot kids with small caliber bullets. Just tagging them in the legs and arms with some .22 short rounds until they can build up a tolerance to fast lead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

"Didn't bother me none!" -some fucking Boomer

[–] ChocoboRocket -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be fair, if everything in the system leading up to the school is lead free there should be minimal leeching only happening in the school pipes.

If the pipes in the school have any sediment buildup sequestering the lead from the water there would be little to no leeching.

Definitely looks bad when you say "keep lead pipes in schools" but the reality is still something like "95% of lead removed from water coming out of school taps"

Also, might make schools likely to remove lead pipes if the system is lead free. No point in removing lead pipes from a school if there's +20 miles of lead pipe leading to/from the school

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but WHY. Why exclude -of all places- schools with children? Really?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

Still, the safe level of lead is zero. That last 5% is still detrimental.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's up to school superintendents and legislators to ensure students' water is safe.

And 20 years later there will be a committee investigating why schools didn't do shit.

[–] Ensign_Crab 15 points 2 weeks ago

And 20 years after that, it still won't be fixed.

[–] Gorram_Reavers 54 points 3 weeks ago

It makes sense. How else will they get the next generation of Republican voters?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

why would they get new pipes if they won't even spend a fraction of the amount to feed the kids

[–] gAlienLifeform 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If we had a functioning federal government, the answer would be because the EPA required it and failing to follow environmental regulations could lead to them being prosecuted for child endangerment

[–] FuglyDuck 6 points 3 weeks ago

Okay, I know wish is cheap. But like, does anyone who orders anything on wish actually get something functional?

Ordering ourngovernment off wish? We really need to step it up and go to Amazon!

(/rampant sarcasm, at the end their.)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Let's stop poisoning people except kids with developing brains because someone paid us off

[–] dgmib 27 points 2 weeks ago

America avoiding giving money to low income schools?

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you.

[–] FlyingSquid 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just said to a friend of mine this morning, "do you think we're all weird as fuck because of all the lead fumes we were breathing in from all the cars when we were kids?"

But I guess the lead poisoning has gone on unabated regardless, so we don't have that excuse.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Lead exposure doesn't make you weird, it makes you dumber and increases your risk of cardiovascular problems and dementia later in life.

Air lead exposure in the US dropped off a cliff in the late 70s, people born after 1980 had very little lead exposure from the air on a population level

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 2 weeks ago

I was born in 1977.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Air lead exposure in the US dropped off a cliff in the late 70s, people born after 1980 had very little lead exposure from the air on a population level

And?

[–] Feathercrown 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You must have been born before 1980 ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Born during Nixon, and I remember Carter.

[–] Feathercrown 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It decreases inhibition as well. IIRC, that's one reason it's hypothesised lead exposure contributed to the crime waves, and why blood lead levels are correlated to incarceration.

[–] SpaceNoodle 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why not both?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What they mean is, they haven't bothered to give schools the money to replace them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What they really mean is that they don't give a fuck about poor kids, because poor people don't have time to stand in line for 8 hours to vote. Their kids are going to the nice, new, asbestos-free, lead free, organic, non-GMO schools.

[–] RizzRustbolt 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better idea... If it's a problem with cost, then only fix the schools.

[–] vxx 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You can bring water to school from home.

It's harder to carry water home for the whole family.

I've never drank water from school even once in my life.

[–] solrize 14 points 3 weeks ago

We live in the worst timeline.

[–] boaratio 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We learned nothing from the Roman empire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, how could we with the lead in our water

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

America still using lead pipes?

What year is it?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

A lot of older buildings around the world will probably have some lead in them still. Especially homes from the 60s and older. It's one of the reasons you shouldn't drink anything that comes from the hot tap.

Of course there's no excuse for not having replaced the service lines, and water pipes in public buildings. It's been at least 50 years since we realised putting lead in everything wasn't a great idea. But I guess that costs money, and those third world countries won't bomb themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Feathercrown 1 points 2 weeks ago

Environmental Devestation Agency

[–] irotsoma 4 points 2 weeks ago

Gotta keep the population stupid and complacent somehow.