Drinking lead can damage people’s brains, but Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach opposes a plan to remove lead water pipes.
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In their letter, the attorneys general wrote, “[The plan] sets an almost impossible timeline, will cost billions and will infringe on the rights of the States and their residents – all for benefits that may be entirely speculative.”
Kobach repeated this nearly verbatim in a March 7 post on X (formerly Twitter).
Buttigieg responded by writing, “The benefit of not being lead poisoned is not speculative. It is enormous. And because lead poisoning leads to irreversible cognitive harm, massive economic loss, and even higher crime rates, this work represents one of the best returns on public investment ever observed.”
sigh there is a science about this, and the ppm of led content is not enough to be harmful. I’m not looking it up, but I read it in a Canadian report, because we have led pipes in my city as well in places.
No one likes lead pipes, but it is very debatable if there is an actual harm here.
What are you on about? The way lead gets into drinking water is from corroded lead pipes and fittings. Maybe your city didn’t have high enough lead levels to be harmful but that doesn’t mean lead pipes are harmless.