President Biden has announced a plan to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years."

The Biden administration has announced a proposal to “strengthen its Lead and Copper Rule that would require water systems to replace lead service lines within 10 years,” the White House said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the White House, more than 9.2 million American households connect to water through lead pipes and lead service lines and, due to “decades of inequitable infrastructure development and underinvestment,” many Americans are at risk of lead exposure.

  • ivanafterall
    21•11 months ago

    It’s an admirable policy, but that’s a lot of pipes for one man to replace, even in four years.

    • @[email protected]
      8•11 months ago

      “within 10 years.” Not four, I’m pretty sure all Biden has to do is talk and sign something, local workers would be the ones actually doing it

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
      3•11 months ago

      Gotta start somewhere. It’s killing people everywhere. And in a few decades, we’ll be looking at lead pipes like how we look at asbestos.