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How Federal Investments in Safe Drinking Water Infrastructure
Are Improving Public Health
It’s been ten years since the health crisis in Flint, Michigan, where the city switched its water source resulting in improperly treated water, running through aging water pipes, many of which were lead pipes, into homes across the city, highlighting the negligence and harm caused by officials all to save money. In a new report from the Center for American Progress, ‘Every single state in the country has at least 2,800 active lead lines, affecting nearly 22 million people in total, disproportionately people of color and those from low-income households.’ The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act makes a significant investment in clean drinking water by retrofitting and updating drinking water infrastructure across the United States. Under the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a Lead Service Replacement Accelerators program in partnership with the US Department of Labor has been established.
Through the leadership of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) a letter to the EPA and undersigned by national and state nursing organizations like the American Nurses Association representing hundreds of thousands of nurses to thank the EPA for acting to address public health concerns around lead in drinking water AND to strongly urge EPA to quickly finalize the Lead and Copper Rule (LCR) Improvements that prioritizes health-based standards. Access to safe drinking water is essential for families to live healthy and productive lives. EPA’s proposed improvements to the LCR are a step in the right direction as there is no safe level of lead.
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