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Outrage after US Congress votes to slash $125m in funding to replace toxic lead pipes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Everyone in lead pipe land should have a RO system by now. They are cheap and easy to install. I am in MI and have had one for 18 years, same system just new filters once a year for about $40. I don't trust the government to not poison me somehow.
We should be doing both. Old pipes need to be replaced eventually
Well yes but people should think about themselves and not rely on the government to fix.
Or we could collectively decide that we want a government that can be trusted to manage something as fundamental as drinking water infrastructure without poisoning people and vote accordingly. If you can't trust your government to provide basic public services then what is the point of having a government at all?
🤷 I vote for what's best for the people, IDK why others don't.
Does it remove pfas? What about radium? There are a lot of other pollutants in the water other than just lead I'm afraid. None of which are well guarded against.
Municipal water systems that have to test every year, for one thing won't test for everything, but for another tend to do them when the water table is high, like in the spring, when the water is being pulled off the top, meanwhile in the dryer months it pulls up a lot of the nasties and returns much worse results in the late summer and early fall.