Comment on ngl it gets you pretty buzzed

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We still do.

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  • spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Who do you mean by „we”?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Unfortunately a LOT of water distribution in the US is done in lead pips, That’s the whole damn flint water crisis. They don’t replace them because left undisturbed they’re not shedding at a dangerous rate, but once you fuck around with flow and pressure, it gets bad real quick.

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      • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or changing the chemical package you add to the water to, for example, prevent scaling in pipes.

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      • spitfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oof, I should have guessed it’s US&A.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No, Germans. ->: verbraucherzentrale.de/…/bleileitungen-verboten-l…

      And in “We” I meant the world population having old stock of lead in ground that are generally safe if handled properly.

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• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As far as i know this was not much of a problem the older the pipes got, because the pipes would accumulate a layer of calcium carbonate deposits from the untreated water over time.

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