[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Lobbying for taxpayer $$$$ and ‘union jobs’?

[Hot Tabasco]

So where exactly do you live? Lead pipes aren't good unless the water supply contains chemicals that that prevent them from corrosion.

Example being the Flint Michigan water fiasco..........

[T-Bone Texan]

Well hey, food and water is fairly important.

Sounds like he preys upon fear.

Glad you sent the hippy packing!

[backwoods-engineer]

Name of urban area in which this occurred? Somewhere in CA?

[Terry L Smith]

Sounds like the motherloving hippie is trying to pick up where Elizabeth Warren was going, during the confirmation hearing of Ben Carson.

[Blue Jays]

Look at who is ringing your doorbell prior to answering.
Unless it is family, friends, firefighters in full turnout gear with firetruck at curbside, or you're expecting a UPS / FedEx delivery...just ignore it.

[SaveFerris]

Well, hey, I haven't been able to afford the thin mints and peanut butter ones for awhile now.

[tbw2]

We spent trillions on stimulus and shovel ready jobs and these things weren’t fixed. Can’t trust any Democrats TO fix it.

[upchuck]

Food & Water Watch is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Food & Water Action Fund is a 501(c)4 organization.

Impressive /s

I am immediately suspicious of organizations with "watch" or "action" in the name.

BTW, they claim 501(c)3 status. Yet their website is as liberal as they come. Interesting.

[Spitzensparkin1]

Lead pipes??? Really? Never seen them Have seen lots of copper and used to see lots of Galv. steel water pipe , but LEAD PIPES? Mostly they are PEX plastic now.

They worried so much about any lead in paints, how could they have missed lead pipes carrying water to peoples homes all these years? I call B.S.!

[BipolarBob]

Tell them you only donate to the Human Fund.

[fruser1]

I had some lefty chick come by once for a clean water petition.

This is in the DC area, where there is no serious prob.

I quickly told her that I wasn’t into that “eco nazi stuff” and, besides, it’s not like there’s anyone getting sick from the water now, is there?

Now I know first hand what a baby seal looks like when it gets clubbed.

[catnipman]

Municipalities don’t use lead pipes to deliver water: such pipes simply wouldn’t be strong enough to withstand the gigantic pressures involved.

Lead pipes, however, are still service in SOME very old houses, but even here do not cause problems IF the municipal water is delivered with a PH that avoids eroding the lead.

That was the problem in Flint: the fools running the water treatment plants were completely ignorant regarding potable water chemistry, and thus the lead pipes in these really old houses started poisoning to people who lived in them.

BTW, I haven’t drunk tap water in decades: in the olden days I would have spring water delivered for drinking and in the latter decades have always had a 7-stage undersink RO system.