Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula.
Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula.
It’s still legal for plumbing parts that contain lead to be used here in Australia.
It was supposed to be banned last year but they extended the dead line twice because the plumbers were crying.
It’s now meant to be fully phased out in May 2026.
There may be more lead in your country than you think, even if lead pipes are banned.
Multiple schools here have had lead found in their water. It’s crazy.
Well, it’s not been legal in the UK since 1970 to sell or install lead plumbing.
And the official Department of Water Inspectors (https://dwi.gov.uk/) reported only 50 cases of lead pipes in last year’s inspection
The use of lead solder and brass fittings has only been illegal in the uk since 1999, and these are still legal to use in central heating systems. This leads to people having access to these fittings and products, and them being used illegally.
“WaterSafe Warning after Kitchen Fitter Fined for Illegal Use of Lead Solder on Water Pipes” https://www.watersafe.org.uk/news/latest_news/watersafe_warning_af/
Unfortunately this problem is sort of universal and I imagine if I google other countries I will find similar.
To be fair, lead solder is far far far less risky than last piping
That is a straw man argument, but I’ll indulge again.
No amount of lead is safe, and a random sampling of newly built houses testing water from the cold kitchen tap as well as hot and cold from the bathrooms found lead above the current regulatory limit, and 5 times higher than the proposed new regulatory limit.
https://leappalliance.org.uk/litw-blog-15/
https://www.ifeh.org/docs/scientificreports/scottish_new_homes_lead_survey_ summary.pdf
One study has shown a clear response in infants where blood lead levels increased by 1µg/dL with drinking water that exceeded 5 µg/L. This is already worrying since it is now believed that blood lead levels as low as 1-2µg/dL result in negative health effects associated with fertility, neurological, cardiovascular, and renal disorders.
https://thewaterprofessor.com/blogs/articles/drinking-water-lead-and-iq