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.

  • Stampy@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Pretty sure most pipes don’t have have lead these days but lead the soldering in the joints of the pipes it is still pretty common

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      Tons of old houses have lead fixtures still, unless they’ve personally paid a plumber to replace all of the pipes in the building.