Absolutely not something to be given for granted.

Shoutout to u/UnusualInstance6 on Reddit

      • stankmut@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        It might. It took years and hundreds of millions of dollars to fix, but they did clean up Flint’s water system.

      • WhatThaFudge@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        The EPI measures water quality in terms of “age-standardized disability-adjusted life-years lost per 100,000 persons (DALY rate) due to exposure to unsafe drinking water”

        Not just Michigan with lead in their water pipes

        The impact of lead on neurodevelopmental effects in children even at low levels of exposure is well established. Population and toxicokinetic modeling studies have found a clear relationship between water lead levels and blood lead levels in children at low levels of lead in drinking water

        The IARC classes lead as a probable human carcinogen. Lead damages the nervous system and can lead to reproductive problems.

        It sounds like lead in water pipes isn’t directly lethal so that would explain why they don’t count it in the numbers from that site

        The definition on that website sounds like they just count people dying as direct result of the water (Ex dysentery)

    • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 day ago

      The link and title of the webpage talk about water quality, but further down they argue only about the safety of water: “According to the DALY scale, a score of 100 indicates countries with the purest and least-contaminated water”, but to be honest I rather drink slightly unsafe water that tastes natural over supersafe water that taste like thinned bleach lol