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
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    2111 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]
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      811 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
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      311 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.

  • e_t_
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    1111 months ago

    If Trump is elected, watch him cancel this program and announce a program to replace all water pipes with lead ones, just to spite Biden.

  • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    711 months ago

    In before GOP has a temper tantrum because lead-filled voters is their biggest supporters.

    • Eggyhead
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      411 months ago

      They also require the right to fill anyone else with it.