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Conceivable. And not just that far back. It's been thought that Beethoven's deafness was largely the result of the way wine was stored back in the 18th century.
by 8bitsrule 1y ago
Conceivable. And not just that far back. It's been thought that Beethoven's deafness was largely the result of the way wine was stored back in the 18th century.
And what did we learn from history? "The federal government banned the use of leaded pipe and solder in new plumbing systems in 1986, but many remaining pipe networks in older cities and homes predate the policy; the EPA estimates there are still 6 to 10 million lead service lines across the country." - https://greenyplace.com/when-did-they-stop-using-lead-pipes-in-houses https://greenyplace.com/when-did-they-stop-using-lead-pipes-...
- j45 1y agoMeaningful in-home water filtration increasingly seems pretty much mandatory. The degree of water filtration often requires about having to learn about re-mineralizing.
- 05 1y ago> The degree of water filtration often requires about having to learn about re-mineralizing. You can drink distilled water all day every day, you get all the minerals you'd ever need from food. Remineralization post-filters are purely for better taste (subjective of course).
- oneshtein 1y agoI ate salty products like crazy after year or two on pure water. My doctor told me to drink mineral water or tap water instead of pure water — the problem is gone.
- j45 1y agoDrinking distilled water can create micro deficiencies that can contribute to things like brain fog, etc depending on the type of water you normally have. Drinking distilled water strips your body of things that naturally are in water, because no fresh water lake, river, etc is distilled water. Another key part of distilled water is that it also has fewer electrolytes. Electrolytes to a good degree are our friend. If water already has a bit of magnesium in it, it's helpful, everyone just gets it. I respect if it's working for you but I have met many folks who it didn't work for. Remineralization felt like a pain, but like most things it doesn't hurt to try and collect your own experience rather than understand everything before beginning. Since drinking water can be location based, some water may have more calcium naturally in it, or something else, etc.
- IAmBroom 1y agoThis is the internet. It is global. In-home water filtration is a minority situation in the US.
- j45 1y agoTrying to understand your point. Water filtration seems to exist plenty inside the US and outside too.
- charcircuit 1y agoI think it's ridiculous that landlords are able to rent properties that will give tenants lead poisoning as long as they provide a warning. I have a feeling that many people think tbe warning is just for legal liability and don't realize that their landlord is knowingly poisoning them.
- bell-cot 1y agoUnfortunately, "lead in the water" is not a boolean, and is extremely dependent on things the landlord doesn't control - especially the chemistry of the municipal water supply. But our legal system makes it easiest to sue the landlord. Sure, you could rip out all the old metal pipes and replace them with (say) PVC. Even handwaving the expense and issues of that - did you just replace "lead" with "microplastics"?
- charcircuit 1y ago>is not boolean There is a concentration of it where it becomes harmful. >dependent on things the landlord doesn't control They have the ability to filter water.
- bell-cot 1y ago> There is a concentration of it where... Unfortunately, lead seems to follow a "anything above 0.000000000000% is harmful, though more is worse" rule. > They have the ability to... True, but there are a lot of filter-worthy things which can be found in drinking water - https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national-primary-drinking-water-regulations https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/national... - so how much filtering, for which contaminants, should they have to do? How often should they have to re-test the (probably municipal) water supply, to verify that their filtering is doing the job? And how much will they mark up the price of water for their tenants, to cover the expenses of all their extra filtering and testing?
- potato3732842 1y agoNobody is being "actively" poisoned except perhaps the consumers of your rhetoric. The lead develops a layer that keeps it from dissolving into water (much like aluminum develops an oxide layer) and won't hurt anyone as long as the water source doesn't pull a Flint. This is true for pipes both in houses and city pipes upstream. Is it more dangerous than not, yes. But it's not really an "active" problem.
- userbinator 1y agoIt was known long ago that lead (and other) water pipes develop a passivation layer due to minerals in the water, and the water is adjusted to do so if it doesn't naturally, but everyone knows about the case of Flint, Michigan where they didn't.
- AdamN 1y agoYeah those types of second order problems are really tough in low-intelligence bureaucracies. 1/ Lead is good for pipes!, 2/ lead is bad for health!, 3/ ok we've ripped out half the pipes but it turns out that when we control the mineral mix in the water we can mitigate the lead contamination from pipes that are hard to replace, 4/ let's do something cheaper and not do any due diligence and forget that 3 was done some time ago.
- IAmBroom 1y ago5/ because it's only poor blacks anyway.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoWho didn’t maintain the pipes properly? Was it a different group of people taking advantage somehow, or was it that same group? Just curious, as I see this brought up a lot, but it seems like the government is probably made up of the same demographics as the area?
- AdamN 11mo agoFamously not so in Flint.
- pfannkuchen 11mo agoWho are you referring to?
- _glass 1y agoYes, in Hamburg, Germany there are a lot of lead pipes still. When moving there I got to find this out by a letter from the government, that I should know that I have many times over the limit drinking water which I was consuming. I was always telling others to drink the safe tap water ...
- AdamN 1y agoFunny. If you say that kind of thing in some of the German subreddits they'll run you out with pitchforks - "Germany has the best water in the world!" is the refrain.
- manmal 1y agoWhy did you tell others to drink tap water if you haven’t verified it’s safe?
- mjh2539 1y agoBecause in the first world it is reasonable to believe that the tap water in major metropolitan areas is potable.
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- Modified3019 1y agoAvgas still has lead in it unfortunately.
- tastyfreeze 1y agoIt is also not used by many airplanes.
- cyanydeez 1y agoMost likely leaded gasoline from the rise of cars is our bariatric les fascism.
- Loughla 1y agoWhat does that mean?
- rangestransform 1y agoChicago has so much lead pipe because “lead is so dangerous that only union pipe fitters can work with it”, and the pipe fitters union lobbied to put in more to create more work for themselves. Union leadership should’ve went to jail for that
- tptacek 1y agoChicagoland lead pipe risk is managed by MWRD. Regardless of whether you have lead service lines, if you test your water, you're likely to find your lead levels nominal.