The EPA estimates that nine million homes in the U.S. have lead pipes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20665840

President Biden on Tuesday announced $2.6 billion in funding to replace all lead pipes in the United States as part of a new EPA rule that will require lead pipes to be identified and replaced within 10 years using the new funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

  • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
    21•1 month ago

    Oh, I think I understand now: you think that $15 billion is all there is and ever can be because you don’t understand that “a decade” is 10 years and consequently that the EPA has time to get more funding for this over a period of – again – 10 years.

    Since I know reading is hard for you, here’s something to enhance your comprehension of that $15 billion figure: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/so_far

    Edit: and you never answered: where on god’s green Earth is 700 million coming from? Milwaukee? Because that’s one city, and cities have different amounts of lead pipes.

      • TheTechnician27OPEnglish
        15•1 month ago

        Yeah, I didn’t initially recognize the $700 million not because I hadn’t read the article but because my brain genuinely couldn’t reach the conclusion quickly enough that you were actually so mind-numbingly inept to take one city, Milwaukee, and say “oh, okay, I guess we can extrapolate that to every city now” (bearing in mind that actual estimates already exist). I guess the US is just several dozen Milwaukees in a trenchcoat.

        And yes, mhm, that vegan troll sub. That’s us I guess. Hi.