[bsanr2]

Many of the comparable cases will involve cities that also had lead poisoning issues.

[Aunche]

Many towns in Canada have even higher concentrations of lead in their water than Flint. How are their schools doing compared to Flint?

https://apnews.com/24628f49af1e45219ee4b06c0a9a1229

[bilbo0s]

Looks like the highest one was about 140ppb in Canada. In Flint it was 158ppb.

But at those levels, it makes no difference at all. They may as well be equal. If there are 10 elephants sitting down on top of you, it probably won't matter if an eleventh elephant comes along and takes a seat on that stack as well.

Now that I'm actually seeing the data, I kind of think we shouldn't even be talking about schools for these people. They have way bigger problems. I thought we were talking about levels maybe 2 or 3 times the globally accepted standard. Which is still too much, I get that. But that's all the more reason that levels 25 to 30 times that standard are just not even on the charts. These are levels literally an order of magnitude higher than I thought they were.

Flint may be slightly worse numerically, but at those levels, I'm not sure there's a whole lot of material difference in impact?

[bsanr2]

Is it a matter of discussion there? Is there proper support for the people who live there? Do Canadian institutions, such as universal healthcare, make for different outcomes?