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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

President Joe Biden announced Thursday $3 billion toward identifying and replacing the nation’s unsafe lead pipes, a long-sought move to improve public health and clean drinking water that will be paid for by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

Biden unveiled the new funding in North Carolina, a battleground state Democrats have lost to Donald Trump in the past two presidential elections but are feeling more bullish toward due to an abortion measure on the state’s ballot this November.

The Environmental Protection Agency will invest $3 billion in the lead pipe effort annually through 2026, Administrator Michael Regan told reporters. He said that nearly 50% of the funding will go to disadvantaged communities – and a fact sheet from the Biden administration noted that “lead exposure disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income families.”

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[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

You’re being pointlessly semantic and making no actual argument here.

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip -5 points 6 months ago

Didn't have an opportunity to make it clearer due to opponent's smartassing tone, so: the argument was that it does matter how much probability there is of lead getting into your water.

Since, as even people under this post explain, it happens differently with different water composition, whether there is vibration, whether some sharp item floats through the pipe etc.

So a lead pipe doesn't necessarily poison all water passing through it. Just sometimes does that.

Same as a punctured cast iron pipe doesn't leak always, only when the pressure is right, when some coating of various nature over the puncture gets dissolved or damaged by vibration, etc.

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