The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed strict new rules that would require most U.S. cities to replace lead water pipes within 10 years. The Biden administration aims to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises. The overhaul of lead rules is the strongest in over three decades and will cost billions of dollars.
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environment al Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises like the ones in Flint, Michigan and Washington, D.C. Millions of people consume drinking water from lead pipes and the agency said tighter standards would improve IQ scores in children and reduce high blood pressure and heart disease in adults.
It is the strongest overhaul of lead rules in more than three decades, and will cost billions of dollars. Pulling it off will require overcoming enormous practical and financial obstacles. "These improvements ensure that in a not too distant future, there will never be another city and another child poisoned by their pipes," said Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician and clean water advocate. The Biden administration has previously said it wants all of the nation's roughly 9 million lead pipes to be removed, and rapidl
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