From: Razer <g2s@riseup.net>

On 12/29/2016 01:16 PM, jim bell wrote:

>>You are trying to mislead by using this article. It doesn't even explain from where the lead comes.

>Maybe they don't KNOW where the lead comes from. Does that mean it isn't newsworthy?

You are trying to connect this lead with wafer fabs. That is the misleading part.

Lead in drinking water is potentially a problem, but often it doesn't come from the actual source of the water. Until relatively recently, plumbers used lead/tin solder to connect pipes. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_(fluid_conveyance)#Materials " In the US it's estimated that 6.5 million lead pipes installed before the 1930s are still in use."×

'Soft water' (water without a lot of mineral content) tends to be corrosive to such joints. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbosolvency

One example of incompetents dealing with the problem of lead in water is: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2016/07/lead_in_portland_school_water.html Don't forget that Oregon, and especially Portland, is famously liberal.

Jim Bell

From: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/us/flint-water-crisis-fast-facts/ ×

"According to a class-action lawsuit, the state Department of Environmental Quality was not treating the Flint River water with an anti-corrosive agent, in violation of federal law. The river water was found to be 19 times more corrosive than water from Detroit, which was from Lake Huron, according to a study by Virginia Tech."

"Since the water wasn't properly treated, lead from aging service lines to homes began leaching into the Flint water supply after the city tapped into the Flint River as its main water source."