Social Determinants of Health (Unlocked)
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Water Lead Crisis in Pittsburgh
Fracking water gets into the municipal water supply of Pittsburgh. Frack water is leaching out of the pits that it's stored in once it's been used. And consequently, the municipal drinking water in Pittsburgh ended up being full of heavy metals like bromine. So anybody that had a lead service line, you know, the water that they were getting off of the main was corrosive to their pipes and was causing lead to leach into the drinking water. But I think that there is a kind of social medicine critique to be leveled, which is fracking this intensive environmental degradation for extractive purposes is harmful to health.
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