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Outrage after US Congress votes to slash $125m in funding to replace toxic lead pipes
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026
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Does it remove pfas? What about radium? There are a lot of other pollutants in the water other than just lead I'm afraid. None of which are well guarded against.
Municipal water systems that have to test every year, for one thing won't test for everything, but for another tend to do them when the water table is high, like in the spring, when the water is being pulled off the top, meanwhile in the dryer months it pulls up a lot of the nasties and returns much worse results in the late summer and early fall.