Protecting Drinking Water from Lead In Pipes

The chemical symbol for lead is Pb. It stands for plumbum, the Latin word for this heavy, malleable metal. Think it’s coincidence we call the system of pipes delivering water to our faucets “plumbing”? Hardly. Some 2,000 years ago the Romans were running water through lead pipe plumbing, and paying the price with their health, or so some argue.

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