Detroit is latest big school district to turn off tap water (Flint: budget, health)

[the tiger]

Woah this is troubling.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...f-tap-57574021

[Geo-Aggie]

This may be tough, given budgetary restrictions within Detroit Public Schools, but the issue is typically within the water fixtures, many of which are probably 50+ years old, were built in an era when lead and copper in fixtures was not a concern, and have been subject to decades of corrosion of these heavy metals. This could be addressed by replacing the fixtures, as many schools in Oakland County did this year.

As always, it's going to a budget stretch, but sometimes there are things in life more important than money. Unfortunately money is the reality which use to delegate resources and often schools and infrastructure get buried in a community with as many budget problems as Detroit has had. I don't know how to achieve the solution, but the solution is almost certainly new fixtures in all of the schools.

[huckster]

Yes, the Flint debacle happened when Flint added an agent to help purify the city's water and it instead loosed the demons of corrosion , lead, from within the city's ancient infrastructure. Out to children and the public. Is there a hatchet man for whomever was behind this huge assault on Flint's health? Somebody is responsible, someplace.

Originally Posted by Geo-Aggie

This may be tough, given budgetary restrictions within Detroit Public Schools, but the issue is typically within the water fixtures, many of which are probably 50+ years old, were built in an era when lead and copper in fixtures was not a concern, and have been subject to decades of corrosion of these heavy metals. This could be addressed by replacing the fixtures, as many schools in Oakland County did this year.

As always, it's going to a budget stretch, but sometimes there are things in life more important than money. Unfortunately money is the reality which use to delegate resources and often schools and infrastructure get buried in a community with as many budget problems as Detroit has had. I don't know how to achieve the solution, but the solution is almost certainly new fixtures in all of the schools.