kat_angstrom comments on TIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water

TIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water - it's the lead (and other heavy metals) (www.epa.gov)

submitted 1 year ago by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.ca

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Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula.

[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What if I don't live in America, and my local infrastructure is sanitary?

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

America's water infra is fine. Flint was a case of mismanaging the water supply. (Neat write up in this thread.) Jackson Mississippi is the only other place I'm aware of modern issues, and I wouldn't take MS of an example of American anything except for "bottom of the barrel everything".

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 5 points 1 year ago

It's actually common knowledge that the vast majority of American water infrastructure is now nearly 100 years out of date, and Flint was just one regional example of potential waiting crises.

Source(s):

John Oliver Brought Out Sesame Street’s Elmo to Explain How We Can Stop Poisoning Our Children

The Lead Pipes in Flint Are a Tiny Part of a Huge Lead Problem

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago*

Impossible, as the American band Rammstein once said "We're all living in Amerika, Amerika ist Vunderbar"

And then the rest of the song is in ~~German~~ Far Western Pacific American

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