The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840

President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

  • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
    16•5 hours ago

    Oh, I think I understand now: you think that $15 billion is all there is and ever can be because you don’t understand that “a decade” is 10 years and consequently that the EPA has time to get more funding for this over a period of – again – 10 years.

    Since I know reading is hard for you, here’s something to enhance your comprehension of that $15 billion figure: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so_far

    Edit: and you never answered: where on god’s green Earth is 700 million coming from? Milwaukee? Because that’s one city, and cities have different amounts of lead pipes.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      -11•5 hours ago

      Edit: and you never answered: where on god’s green Earth is 700 million coming from?

      …

      From the article you didn’t read before you posted…

      I even quoted it in my first comment:

      The city of Milwaukee, where Mr. Biden is making the announcement, has 65,000 lead pipes, which the city says will cost an estimated $700 million to remove.

      But with all the insults and just the sheer difficulty of having to explain things to you in a way you can understand, I’m gonna have to tap out

      I’m truly sorry I can’t help anymore, and I hope you find someone with more patience willing to assist you.

      Quick edit:

      Shit. You’re a mod from that animal abuse troll sub…

      I thought I’d blocked all of you already, now it makes sense why this was so difficult

      • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
        12•4 hours ago

        Yeah, I didn’t initially recognize the $700 million not because I hadn’t read the article but because my brain genuinely couldn’t reach the conclusion quickly enough that you were actually so mind-numbingly inept to take one city, Milwaukee, and say “oh, okay, I guess we can extrapolate that to every city now” (bearing in mind that actual estimates already exist). I guess the US is just several dozen Milwaukees in a trenchcoat.

        And yes, mhm, that vegan troll sub. That’s us I guess. Hi.