MinuteEarth | Why Do We STILL Use Lead Pipes?! @MinuteEarth | Uploaded May 2020 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
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We've known for millennia that lead pipes could make us sick, so why are we still drinking from them?

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Troesken W. and Beeson, P. (2003) On the Significance of Lead Water Mains in American Cities: Some Historical Evidence.” In Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Course, ed. Costa Dora L., 127–51. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER. nber.org/chapters/c9632.pdf