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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: goldworldnet who wrote (210905)12/18/2001 1:30:18 PM
From: Kenneth V. McNutt  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
A historical footnote is that the Romans used lead pipes for water. No wonder
they rarely lived past 40.

As a youngster I helped excavate and repair many a lead pipe water service in the the City of Detroit and the surrounding suburbs. Probably most cities constructed in 1800's and 1900's had the same. Lead has a propensity to crumble. I suspect many of them, unless they had a water leakage problem, still exist as I doubt hundreds of thousands of these services and their mains have been replaced. Maybe that is why the Detroit Lions are 1 and 12, think so?

Ken

PS I drank that water for many years as did my Mother, and I'm OK, and she is 96. Yeowwy!!!
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