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What? The US banned new lead pipes almost 40 years ago.

• halcek 3y ago
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• Retric 3y ago
  The US allowed lead pipes to be installed in the mid 1980’s, that’s crazy. Edit: 1986! But in this case banning them means preventing their use.
  • bluGill 3y ago
    Europe was only slightly ahead there. Europe has far more lead pipes in use today than America. Of course use is spotty, some cities lead pipes are everywhere, some don't have much. However Europe needs to clean themselves up not laugh at the US.
    • Retric 3y ago
      I’m in the US, many US cities banned lead pipes in the 1920’s. We banned lead paint in 1978, pipes just took a lot longer than I was expecting. Europe varies quite a bit. In 1999: “Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Portugal, and Belgium all had higher percentages of lead lines ranging between 15% and 51%. Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands had between 3% and 9%, while Denmark and Greece had less than 1%”