| "Ongoing efforts". Great. > a federal judge recently found Flint in civil contempt for failing to meet a deadline to remove all of the city's lead service lines. > There are an estimated nine million lead service lines in need of replacement across the U.S. - https://www.npr.org/2024/04/25/1247095068/its-been-10-years-... > Flint residents have yet to see a penny of the $625 million class-action settlement that came from a lawsuit against the state - https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/2024/04/25/flint-water... And it's not just Flint, like I said: > CR and the Guardian selected 120 people from around the US, out of a pool of more than 6,000 volunteers, to test for arsenic, lead, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), and other contaminants. The samples came from water systems that together service more than 19 million people. > A total of 118 of the 120 samples had concerning levels of PFAS or arsenic above CR’s recommended maximum, or detectable amounts of lead. - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/31/americas-tap... Specific criteria you ask: How about just living up to our own standards, for a start. Holding polluters and enablers accountable. Then we can get those standards up to where other, more densely populated, less wealthy countries already have them. |