There's a highschool in my city was built in the 1951. it's overfilled, falling part, and the drinking water is yellow. The district has been trying to get the votes needed to build a new school but it always fails because of the people who live by the school not wanting their property value to drop because of the school moving. God I hate people. 😤😤
Yellow sounds like copper contamination. They should contact the state health inspectors and ask for an inspection. Then if it turns out positive they should ask to get the school closed until the city approves to replace the pipes or build a new school.
His common ass cant do shit..he can make a viral RUclips clip of yellow water and the shit will still get swept under the rug..Corruption is a Mthfker!
how would that affect them? just build another school and split the attendees in half. Unless they plan to build a bigger school to move EVERYONE (which makes no sense)
@@luizmatthew1019i cannot recall any ordinary copper compound that is yellow, copper usually forms blue and green compounds, so yellow actually sounds a lot like iron, and iron is something that does tend to find its way into drinking water
Sadly with the school shootings we hear about in the states, the horrible job some teachers do at teaching and now lead. Maybe it's best to keep your kids at home.
We CAN pay if we chose to as a society however our government spends the money on wars and hiding monies oversees...GREED. Our teachers Absolutely deserve better pay but so does all the working class. We need to prioritize healthcare and education in this country!! Profits over ppl is not helping us.
Lorrie C this is utopian nonsense. The reason the US is the world’s most innovative medical developer is our profit driven system. No one is going to pump 1-2 billion dollars per drug to research when 9 out of 10 never make it to market and there’s no profit. To be blunt, teachers are a dime a dozen. They’re worth their value in the jobs market based on their scarcity, or in this case, lack there of.
@@dougd1573 well Doug! Utopia IS my goal for me and mine. And why shouldn't it be? You can keep clinging to this outdated profit driven system because Americans have come to realize that once we have Medicare for all - EVERYONES HEALTH goes up as a society and research will still have a place just maybe not as big. I'm not FEARFUL of change. Capitalism needs to serve the ppl first or it needs to die away also, times are changing....
My school’s water is disgusting, so they have to sell water bottles at crazy prices. EDIT: Hey so my water is not NEARLY as bad as the water in Flint, and the water here is drinkable, it’s just gritty and dirty, sorry for any confusion.
@@1minutestories At least Nestle can take it from our Canadian lakes for nothing and then sell it to all of your children because they are too lazy to fix pipes that shouldn't have been used in the first place. Same idiots pushing fracking right now... taking oil out and putting cancer in, land slides and our citizens are getting sick. At least gas is cheap though, what's a little cancer.
@@tonyjuarez9688 Lead doesn't cause bacterial infections though, it's just straight up poison. Boiling or alcohol will NOT reduce the amount of lead in what you're drinking. You need to filter out the lead particulate itself.
two different issues. how about this one Clean drinking water? hell nah fighting the first amendment right to speech to force people to call you xir or face jail time? hell yeah!
200 years to replace the piping? Make it 20 if we ever want to make it somewhere with this world of ours, we need to stop taking so long on upgrading civilization in general.
My mom teaches for the richest county in the country. She teaches foods. Well one, when they tested for led in the pipes it was 3 months after the deadline to have submitted the results for the test, so good job on that county. It was supposed to be done before summer break so all kids next year were safe, they tested the first week back in school in August. Then they found there were too high of levels and shut off all the pipes just as school started. HERE'S THE EVEN MORE INFURIATING THING. They didn't tell my mom anything. They didnt notify teachers at all. The only reason my mother knew she had to buy clean water suddenly for all her classes and cooking because the sinks were shut off, is because she was luckily still subscribed to the parent email from when I was in school. So yeah, she had a field day telling her union about that. Fuck the people who put our kids and teachers safety in danger for their own money and interests. No budget is too high when it means protecting our kids
This is why we need to close LCR loopholes and be proactive on remediation. When you close LCR loopholes, you get accurate lead tests. A lot of these tests would show worse and accurate levels to show the depth of impact.
Coophack6584 and the children affected by this so called “crisis” are just victim actors. There is no water crisis just left wing biased propaganda. (Sarcasm)
My school in boise Idaho got constant complaints about the water fountains. The school took out all of the fountains and replaced them with filtered fountains by the end of the school year.
Great dive, Phil! As you pointed out, those pipes are mostly municipal in nature. They were laid around 100 years back, in the growing hey-day of the Industrial Revolution as it rampaged across the U.S. and in receding years. At the time, while lead was still popular, even with some "safety concerns"... The new industrial infrastructure was supposedly "built to last", and they just didn't WANT to point out flaws or weakness, or any reason for folks in the populace NOT to embrace this new technical era with taxes and funds to municipal facilities. Worse, instead of taking the rush of new customers and financing from new accounts to build back a form of capitol for pipe-replacement, the big BIG companies and municipalities running this shit-show, dubiously raced to push those funds into the pockets of shareholders. AND they've been doing the same asinine cycle ever since... Nobody stops to point out that maintenance of an infrastructure is GOING to be needed. They build up this nifty new niche of utilities, make a bunch of money, and sell out to the nearest highest bidder(s)... Stockholders don't want to hear about funding the next "make-over" or "how to save for the crunch of new technology". They want to hear a "Bottom Line Improvement", so if it's not "how my thousand dollar investment turns into a million dollar return" they're not interested. Now, we're a country with lead-infested networks from coast to coast across the continent, and not a damn dime left to do a thing about it. Sure, it's affordable, economical, and a dozen other nice words... BUT when the customers pay in and stockholders VACUUM UP the moneys, there's nothing left to do WITH... so there's no point to affordable or economical or reasonable. Meanwhile, these same stockholders have their financial institutions backing political candidates hard and fast to see to it that Laws will NEVER push back. If you want to deal with contamination (and lead is ONLY a beginning to the dangers out there leeching into the water at this point) you are on your own... good luck. ;o)
Quality video, along with the Peruvian gold mining video. Keep it up! I like the new upload schedule too because on weekends we get a break from some of the RUclips news that tends to be a lot of drama, but still get a new video.
That's so disappointing. Minnesota has been in a budget surplus & they're asking to increase taxes still. One being to hike gas taxes up again. Yet, they got an F rating for lead.
Thank you for this information. I had no idea. My house is almost 90 years old and I have two young children. I knew about the dangers of water in lead but never realized how many people it affects. I’ll be taking steps to protect my children. I sincerely hope this problem sees a swifter solution for everybody’s sake.
Apparently my uncle was briefly in charge of Flint's water quality after the issue became public. Around that time his wife posted on Facebook that the issue at Flint wasn't even the worst case in Michigan in last few years. It just happened to get the media attention.
My kids school two years ago had to redo a wing of the elementary school because they found out after testing that there was lead. They stopped all drinking fountains and offered bottled water or water dispensers. I live in NY State (state not city, sorta middle of the state, close to Ithaca) where there's houses build in late 1800s (my home was built on 1865). My daughter has high lead levels at the highest was .9. We've tested out water, we've repainted before moving in out side dirt, we've tried to figure out where it comes from. She is the only member of our 4 person family that elevated levels. It's something that is been on going since her first test at one year, she's going to turn six this year. Every three months we have to get blood test and hope that it goes down. It's very scary, she had ADHD and difficulty learning and retaining information. Our son who is turning 10 hasn't had any issues and is an exemplary student. I know children are all different and I my self have ADHD so I can't attribute it to lead levels. Although I went to the same school as my children. It's scary how far spread this issue is and as a parent with a child that has high levels you feel helpless because there's nothing that can be done to fix it.
My old middle school didn’t have working water fountains due to lead in their pipelines. It took them 2 years to fix it only to find out that they refused some of the old pipelines..
I live in TN (one of the states with an F) and I've heard at my highschool, they flush the entire system before testing. (Lebanon High School ONCE AGAIN) I never drink from the fountains or use the restrooms.
I want to know something Philip. How come when a company does something that gets someone hurt there is a massive outcry that demand action but when it comes to the government people are just like, "we'll they need to fix that" and do not hold them liable for the issue? Trusting any form of government is a mistake and they keep proving that again and again.
@@celeste1013 Thank you ! That brings tears to my eyes. I am Greatful I know since I'm older the lead effects may not be as bad as it is for the kids. Mine was only 4.5 out of 10 . I'm gann get re tested for the lead and see if the levels gone down since they fixed the pipes. I still dont use the faucet water now and never will. Not even when I save up enough to move . Once you break that trust yeah there not ganna get my trust back... it all just hurts so much. Bit thanks to you and Phillip Defranco (been watching him since 2013) I know I'm not alone. :):'). And for that I am Greatful.
Or any other western nation with clean water, universal healthcare, ect. America still has so many problems. They don't even have something so basic like paid maternity and/or paternity leave.
The US taxes pay for global medical research and for tonnes of deadend social programs, which increasingly dragging illegals. Also, the US military is the only functional active defense for most of its worthless "allies", while they play smug cheap-ass pseudo-pacifist from far in the back.
No throat punch got me feeling some kind of way, the same kind of way this video made me realize I actually never drink water at least straight up. See what you started? I ain't hydrated Fill Up! Where's my throat punching hydration, Fill Up?
My apartment building was recently repainted, for the first time in many years. The cheap painters my landlord hired left old paint chips all over the ground. So one of my neighbors tested it and sure enough, it was lead paint
There was a school in my district that tested positive for lead in the water, and it still had asbestos tile flooring. After doing the math, they decided that it was more cost effective to completely tear down the old school and rebuild. They also made sure to create a school with adequate space for the growing local population, which is the only school in the district so far to do so.
Why don't any of you talk about a bit of history of lead... Kinda like how Lead water pipes/ ways, lead to the fall of rome via birth defects... Or how Ben Franklin was one of the first people in history to ever write about lead damage, through his observations of a aging co-worker in a print shop?
People shouldn't have to worry about their pipes potentially hurting them. The building bloods of this country, piping, sewers, roads, tunnels, schools, are all falling apart. This shouldn't even be a possiblity, yet right now it's a reality. We're being failed as a people because those in power are being selfish, dismissive, or outright negligent. Things need to change before everything falls apart.
I remember when one of my friends worked for a company the pulled lead pipes out of the ground. He used the lead to cast ammunition for his muzzleloaders because the lead is so pure
In every military housing we have lived in the past 4 years, we had to sign a paper that we were told about the lead in our home and pipes. Out of my 4 children, the 2 that were born in military housing both have/had severe speech delays and one has behavioral issues. My almost 6 year old has an IEP for speech and goes to classes twice a week. Both my children born in WA state, off of the military base, are advanced in school and started speaking and reading very early. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Also this past year there has been articles in The Army Times describing the military housing “crisis”.
Yeah people just assume because it's out of the news the problem has been fixed, I live in flint and assure you that not only is it still a problem but that Nestle is the only one still giving out any free water and that's because they pay the state nothing for getting it from the lakes and want to keep it that way, there's also donation water still coming from 6 churches but it's nowhere near what it was at its height
Happy to see the Lead problem in Flint is back to where it was.. with that said why haven't the news covered the places that are WORST than Flint? It would be nice for the government to at least focus on the worst cases first and continue from there, not just the problems shown on the news 24/7.
Is there a single thing about the American school system that doesn't fucking suck? I've known dozens of Americans over the years and the ONLY guy who had a passable school experience was a preppy rich kid who went to a private school. Even those seem to suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind two countries so close can be night and day.
In my school their was a leak, so they placed a bucket under the leak to prevent a spread. At the beginning of the day it appears like dirty, grey water, but at the end when all the water dries up, you can see a layer if lead at the bottom of the bucket.
When we moved in to our house that we are renting I had our water tested and it had lead in there. We installed a home whole house water filter system and no more lead.
When I was in 6th grade, they told us not to get water from certain sinks in the bathroom and certain rooms. Don’t use the sinks, don’t drink the water. 3 years later as a freshman when I go to visit, they still have signs on their bathroom sink “Nonpottable water, do not drink!”
@@HappyDragneels_page I love it when morons lump a whole group of people into one category because all they can do is make blanket statements with their iq level.
@@Feynvel i love it when people take everything in life at face value and don't understand the concept of jokes. you must be real fun at parties, shame you dont get invited to any :)
To make things worse they flushed the pipes before EPA testing at Flint, they still have toxic led levels but because they ran the water for 10-15 minutes before doing the testing when it is supposed to be left over night. Check out Status Coupe they made a documentary they’re currently working on getting distributed
Schools should, at the very least, have some form of vending machine or other means to get bottled water. There's no excuse to not provide students the means to access clean water.
@@katrinal353 totally agree. Unfortunately he's still in elementary school and the district won't allow vending machines on campus. His teacher brings small bottles of water but it's hardly enough.
@@the_real_rascal Yeah, I think this is a policy issue. Were I grew up (not the US), all schools have canteens that kids can buy water, food, etc. I consider this a very basic right for students.
Is this an issue in other countries? I’m from Britain and this situation is making me worried about my own tap water and the blind trust I’ve put into the government to deliver such a basic thing as tap water. If America can’t get it right whose to say other countries are.
It also boils down to companies with millions or billions of dollars not wanting to put their hands in their pockets for the solution - especially when it's children involved. It would be a long and arduous task to replace all of the lead pipes and/or install filters but in the long run it's probably cheaper for them to pay out the lawsuits. America doesn't do what's right, it does what's profitable.
My cities schools have had this probelm for a long time, you can even taste that the water in the fountains are not normal. The students know not to drink it.
Went to Europe and drank tap water from the faucet in 5 different countries with no problem because the EU has very high standards regarding water quality, but I would be scared to do the same in Florida because obviously the government doesn't care 😴😴
Similar to my hometown of Newark, NJ, we were not allowed to drink the water at all. Which is still an issue, but the new mayor is trying to fix it. Also, there were a few schools that had to be shut down, torn down, moved and rebuilt due to asbestos and lead used to make the buildings. So this happens everywhere.
As a man born in Flint and still living in the same county I have to admit their have been moments of great pride and also shame with what has happened. As a American I never even consider water being a issue. It was almost something so basic that it shouldn't require any argument. Clean water should always be available. Water bills are still being issued for lead filled and unusable water to citizens that had nothing to do with the contamination. Accountability has been difficult to find and the frustration from a lack of progress has been pushed aside for far too many years. In my opinion this is a national emergency. If this is a precedent for a acceptable reaction then I fear for the next city that finds themselves with similar issues in America.
I live and work in the Ithaca city school district, I was in high school when they found the lead and turned off the pipes and put in water towers in all the hallways for us to drink out of. Our superintendent has gotten awards for being cheap af and for all 3 years they had the lead and then 2 more years I worked in a elementary school in the district they were saying it was in all the pipes in the ground and that eventually they would have to go in during the summer and fix it and it was gunna cost a bunch of money. Then out of no where a test was done in the middle of last year and they said it wasn’t in the pipes it was in the faucets and the water fountains and all they had to do was change those. I refuse to drink water at my school I bring in a water bottle every day I don’t trust it.
This is really sad, my mom is a prof & teaches neuroanatomy. The saddest part is that lead poisoning is irreversible, lead will permanently bind to neurotransmitter receptor sites. It basically permanently shuts down those pathways. Find good water filters, use them and replace the filters as directed on the package, guys!
I remember my first day at my new high school I tasted the water and told my friend “ This tastes like how your hands smells after grabbing a whole bunch of quarters”. My school is 125 years old. Needless to say I don’t ever drink the water unless I have no other choice.
I live in flint and drive local school buses, the one thing that still gets to me is part of why they switched water to save until they could connect to the new kwa water line from port huron which we've been help fund for over 10 years, while the line now runs past flint almost to Lansing the governor stopped us from connecting to it less than 1/4 a mile away, the general sentiment of locals (and I know how this sounds) is the wealthy elite (citizens of Lansing) don't feel like sharing water with the lower class (anyone living in flint)
Phil.. For real thank you for covering this. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our water has such a strong chlorine smell to it that people naturally started to wonder... Wtf. So the water companies sent out to thousands of residents these bottles to fill with our tap water. I got one too. Filled it up and sent it back for them to test. A solid year later noone heard anything from it. Cool. Guess our water is OK then? Nope. Turns out someone paid and got their water tested independently, and that while the chlorine was high, It was the lead that was worry some. You'd think this would be all over the local news. Again.. Nope! I read about this in a a small free publication that is usually only found in coffee shops. So as someone who has to live here with that.. Thank you for bringing light to the issue.
The way water is used in schools compounds the problem. Many drinking fountains will only be used intermittently, in between class, at lunch, that's about it. The rest of the time the water is just sitting there, and if the pipes are lead, it's accumulating lead. It's even worse after it's had time to sit all weekend! If there's any question about the lead content of the pipes you're drinking from, make sure to let the water run for a little bit first! It helps a ton.
Things like this continue to expose the systemic problems this country has with the wealth gap. The poor and middle class cannot afford massive changes to infrastructure, yet the burden is still placed on them by the rich and powerful through taxes, lobbying and corruption. The very same people who often keep quiet on the issues until they're so widespread that everyone can see, and who don't typically have to encounter them themselves and so have no motivation to spend that almighty dollar on a silly thing like actually helping those around them.
Of course the only thing the school boards are worrying about is how much it will cost to put filtration on the water. Its kids we are talking who can't do anything to help the situation. Its disgusting honestly. The health of the kids should be prioritized over money
i live in michigan but not very close to flint, and even then the running joke at my school is that you can taste lead in the water and that the water at the school is "poisonous!", tho the water only actually taste weird so i dont drink it unless i ran out of water i brought from home. its been like this since maybe before i started going to the school basically.
our school has been shut down before because they found insanely high lead levels. my city is in the top 20 US cities with worst water. water has been shut down before because our entire city only has one company and our pipes havent been updated since they were initially to put in and nothing has been done about it
There's a highschool in my city was built in the 1951. it's overfilled, falling part, and the drinking water is yellow. The district has been trying to get the votes needed to build a new school but it always fails because of the people who live by the school not wanting their property value to drop because of the school moving. God I hate people. 😤😤
Yellow sounds like copper contamination. They should contact the state health inspectors and ask for an inspection. Then if it turns out positive they should ask to get the school closed until the city approves to replace the pipes or build a new school.
His common ass cant do shit..he can make a viral RUclips clip of yellow water and the shit will still get swept under the rug..Corruption is a Mthfker!
how would that affect them? just build another school and split the attendees in half. Unless they plan to build a bigger school to move EVERYONE (which makes no sense)
@@luizmatthew1019i cannot recall any ordinary copper compound that is yellow, copper usually forms blue and green compounds, so yellow actually sounds a lot like iron, and iron is something that does tend to find its way into drinking water
Dude same, half the stairwells colapsed so they did tests on the other and found a shit ton of aspestos (montclair high)
Well then just don't go to school.
*Modern problems require modern solutions*
@@Valk369 wooosh
Classic Chapelle!!
Lmmfao.
Sadly with the school shootings we hear about in the states, the horrible job some teachers do at teaching and now lead. Maybe it's best to keep your kids at home.
Emmanuelly Loyola wooosh
I like this video release format more. Gives me something to actually watch on Sundays
Did this 10 minutes of outrage get you through the day?
@@Geo_Thermal you seem fun.
Angie Stone very fun.
Yeah but he has to stop calling it a morning show.
Ded Jezter hey its a morning show for me!
We cant even pay our teachers of course the school infastructure is screwed up as well.
Matthew Holmes teachers are well paid considering they only work 9 months of the year.
We CAN pay if we chose to as a society however our government spends the money on wars and hiding monies oversees...GREED. Our teachers Absolutely deserve better pay but so does all the working class. We need to prioritize healthcare and education in this country!! Profits over ppl is not helping us.
Lorrie C this is utopian nonsense. The reason the US is the world’s most innovative medical developer is our profit driven system. No one is going to pump 1-2 billion dollars per drug to research when 9 out of 10 never make it to market and there’s no profit.
To be blunt, teachers are a dime a dozen. They’re worth their value in the jobs market based on their scarcity, or in this case, lack there of.
@@dougd1573 well Doug! Utopia IS my goal for me and mine. And why shouldn't it be? You can keep clinging to this outdated profit driven system because Americans have come to realize that once we have Medicare for all - EVERYONES HEALTH goes up as a society and research will still have a place just maybe not as big. I'm not FEARFUL of change. Capitalism needs to serve the ppl first or it needs to die away also, times are changing....
Lorrie C because your utopian ideology for you is not the utopia for me. My utopia is not what you want.
My school’s water is disgusting, so they have to sell water bottles at crazy prices.
EDIT: Hey so my water is not NEARLY as bad as the water in Flint, and the water here is drinkable, it’s just gritty and dirty, sorry for any confusion.
Go to walmart and buy a case for 2-3 dollars
@@kimball12812 excellent reason to organise a protest
@@1minutestories At least Nestle can take it from our Canadian lakes for nothing and then sell it to all of your children because they are too lazy to fix pipes that shouldn't have been used in the first place. Same idiots pushing fracking right now... taking oil out and putting cancer in, land slides and our citizens are getting sick. At least gas is cheap though, what's a little cancer.
@@DJGaetz I am WILDLY confused as to what you're saying.
Micah Bell u a dirty rat
F in Florida can explain the Florida Man stories
Grade F and Meth, floridas life story
@@swandivemedia9249 i say more bath salt than meth xD
Remember the Florida Zombie, I think shit went down hill fast after that happened
THE KID IN THE THUMBNAIL CANT DRINK CLEAN WATER SO HE DRINKS BEER
Better then the lead water. Haha
Ah but what if the water in the beer is also contaminated?
@@SmolPotatowo the alcahol would have killed the bacteria
ilovepork and chicken my first thought lol
@@tonyjuarez9688 Lead doesn't cause bacterial infections though, it's just straight up poison. Boiling or alcohol will NOT reduce the amount of lead in what you're drinking. You need to filter out the lead particulate itself.
Clean drinking water?
Hell nah
Arming teachers with guns?
Hell yeah!
two different issues. how about this one
Clean drinking water?
hell nah
fighting the first amendment right to speech to force people to call you xir or face jail time?
hell yeah!
Then stop fear mongering about an issue that is not nearly as large as the drinking water and people will care more about the larger issue
200 years to replace the piping?
Make it 20 if we ever want to make it somewhere with this world of ours, we need to stop taking so long on upgrading civilization in general.
My mom teaches for the richest county in the country. She teaches foods. Well one, when they tested for led in the pipes it was 3 months after the deadline to have submitted the results for the test, so good job on that county. It was supposed to be done before summer break so all kids next year were safe, they tested the first week back in school in August. Then they found there were too high of levels and shut off all the pipes just as school started.
HERE'S THE EVEN MORE INFURIATING THING. They didn't tell my mom anything. They didnt notify teachers at all. The only reason my mother knew she had to buy clean water suddenly for all her classes and cooking because the sinks were shut off, is because she was luckily still subscribed to the parent email from when I was in school.
So yeah, she had a field day telling her union about that. Fuck the people who put our kids and teachers safety in danger for their own money and interests. No budget is too high when it means protecting our kids
She teaches foods? Is that like home ec? Or a special cooking class? This comment has me confused.
"Welcome to your early morning new show."
It's at least noon in most of the US Phil
the world isn't the US only, mate ;) cheers.
It's always 5 o'clock somewhere
People are up before noon????
He said there was a pds today at the very end. This was probably meant to be a morning video rather than a weekend one
It was 5am here in Australia. He was spot on for once 👌
This is why we need to close LCR loopholes and be proactive on remediation. When you close LCR loopholes, you get accurate lead tests. A lot of these tests would show worse and accurate levels to show the depth of impact.
Chemicals in the water= Turning the frogs gay
Coophack6584 It’s called Atrizine. It’s not only affecting frogs, People too. Wonder how so many psycho weirdos exist today?
Coophack6584 and the children affected by this so called “crisis” are just victim actors. There is no water crisis just left wing biased propaganda.
(Sarcasm)
Alex was right all along.
@@Grinnar 🤯
My school in boise Idaho got constant complaints about the water fountains. The school took out all of the fountains and replaced them with filtered fountains by the end of the school year.
well that is a rare case then lol, most other schools dont do shit
WOAH! SOUND EDITING! have mercy on those of ous who watch with earbuds.
The clip around min 5 was painful!
Great dive, Phil!
As you pointed out, those pipes are mostly municipal in nature. They were laid around 100 years back, in the growing hey-day of the Industrial Revolution as it rampaged across the U.S. and in receding years. At the time, while lead was still popular, even with some "safety concerns"... The new industrial infrastructure was supposedly "built to last", and they just didn't WANT to point out flaws or weakness, or any reason for folks in the populace NOT to embrace this new technical era with taxes and funds to municipal facilities.
Worse, instead of taking the rush of new customers and financing from new accounts to build back a form of capitol for pipe-replacement, the big BIG companies and municipalities running this shit-show, dubiously raced to push those funds into the pockets of shareholders. AND they've been doing the same asinine cycle ever since... Nobody stops to point out that maintenance of an infrastructure is GOING to be needed. They build up this nifty new niche of utilities, make a bunch of money, and sell out to the nearest highest bidder(s)... Stockholders don't want to hear about funding the next "make-over" or "how to save for the crunch of new technology". They want to hear a "Bottom Line Improvement", so if it's not "how my thousand dollar investment turns into a million dollar return" they're not interested.
Now, we're a country with lead-infested networks from coast to coast across the continent, and not a damn dime left to do a thing about it. Sure, it's affordable, economical, and a dozen other nice words... BUT when the customers pay in and stockholders VACUUM UP the moneys, there's nothing left to do WITH... so there's no point to affordable or economical or reasonable.
Meanwhile, these same stockholders have their financial institutions backing political candidates hard and fast to see to it that Laws will NEVER push back. If you want to deal with contamination (and lead is ONLY a beginning to the dangers out there leeching into the water at this point) you are on your own... good luck. ;o)
Quality video, along with the Peruvian gold mining video. Keep it up! I like the new upload schedule too because on weekends we get a break from some of the RUclips news that tends to be a lot of drama, but still get a new video.
That's so disappointing. Minnesota has been in a budget surplus & they're asking to increase taxes still. One being to hike gas taxes up again. Yet, they got an F rating for lead.
The water in my school pretty regularly just... turns yellow for no reason. People still drink it 🤷🏻♀️
I don't think that's water...
I wonder if it’s the same water system used for your toilets
Lila Italian Last Name our water is sometimes warm and not transparent at all but some days its better
Sounds like copper in the water
Your custodians hate their jobs and are rebelling by peeing in your water pipes.
This experiment of having a show everyday of the week is great! I really hope they keep this up.
Nobody:
Phil: Your water is poisoned
Me: oh
I guess you've been under a rock the past 15 years?
I really love these deep dive videos on the weekends! They are extremely informative
I was just watching a video on lead by lastweektonight right now until this showed up in my recommended
I'm sorry that you had to watch that first video to get here but welcome.
Thank you for this information. I had no idea. My house is almost 90 years old and I have two young children. I knew about the dangers of water in lead but never realized how many people it affects. I’ll be taking steps to protect my children. I sincerely hope this problem sees a swifter solution for everybody’s sake.
Legit thought that the kid in the thumbnail was holding beer
Apparently my uncle was briefly in charge of Flint's water quality after the issue became public. Around that time his wife posted on Facebook that the issue at Flint wasn't even the worst case in Michigan in last few years. It just happened to get the media attention.
Phil you made a mistake, there is no regular show later today 🤷🤦😅
This was probably an editing error... or they didn't edit it when they changed the schedule... he also called it the bonus morning show.
My kids school two years ago had to redo a wing of the elementary school because they found out after testing that there was lead. They stopped all drinking fountains and offered bottled water or water dispensers. I live in NY State (state not city, sorta middle of the state, close to Ithaca) where there's houses build in late 1800s (my home was built on 1865).
My daughter has high lead levels at the highest was .9. We've tested out water, we've repainted before moving in out side dirt, we've tried to figure out where it comes from. She is the only member of our 4 person family that elevated levels. It's something that is been on going since her first test at one year, she's going to turn six this year. Every three months we have to get blood test and hope that it goes down. It's very scary, she had ADHD and difficulty learning and retaining information. Our son who is turning 10 hasn't had any issues and is an exemplary student. I know children are all different and I my self have ADHD so I can't attribute it to lead levels. Although I went to the same school as my children.
It's scary how far spread this issue is and as a parent with a child that has high levels you feel helpless because there's nothing that can be done to fix it.
I am loving this, keep feeding me 😔
My old middle school didn’t have working water fountains due to lead in their pipelines. It took them 2 years to fix it only to find out that they refused some of the old pipelines..
I really like these videos keeps me informed on things I would have never have known about.
This explains so much with the US
Very much enjoying the new schedule. Having a video every day instead of some days with 2 videos feels better.
Also? You're seeing us later today????
I live in TN (one of the states with an F) and I've heard at my highschool, they flush the entire system before testing. (Lebanon High School ONCE AGAIN) I never drink from the fountains or use the restrooms.
I need my daily threat from phillyD
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I want to know something Philip. How come when a company does something that gets someone hurt there is a massive outcry that demand action but when it comes to the government people are just like, "we'll they need to fix that" and do not hold them liable for the issue? Trusting any form of government is a mistake and they keep proving that again and again.
Thank you !!! Smh . I still Live here in Flint . 21 years old. Thank you Thank You Thank you !!!
Sorry that our government is failing you, your family, your community. The rest of the country has not abandoned you, we stand with you.
@@celeste1013 Thank you ! That brings tears to my eyes. I am Greatful I know since I'm older the lead effects may not be as bad as it is for the kids. Mine was only 4.5 out of 10 . I'm gann get re tested for the lead and see if the levels gone down since they fixed the pipes. I still dont use the faucet water now and never will. Not even when I save up enough to move . Once you break that trust yeah there not ganna get my trust back... it all just hurts so much. Bit thanks to you and Phillip Defranco (been watching him since 2013) I know I'm not alone. :):'). And for that I am Greatful.
Not just schools with lead, also asbestos and copper in the pipes. Any public facility, like stores, courthouses, prisons, libraries, malls, etc.
God I love living in Scotland.
NHS, free education and fresh water coming from the numerous nearby mountains and hills.
Or any other western nation with clean water, universal healthcare, ect. America still has so many problems. They don't even have something so basic like paid maternity and/or paternity leave.
And you dont pay for prescriptions lol.
The US taxes pay for global medical research and for tonnes of deadend social programs, which increasingly dragging illegals. Also, the US military is the only functional active defense for most of its worthless "allies", while they play smug cheap-ass pseudo-pacifist from far in the back.
In places in Flint corruption is a major factor as to why nothing is being done to prevent lead from getting in drinking water.
No throat punch got me feeling some kind of way, the same kind of way this video made me realize I actually never drink water at least straight up. See what you started? I ain't hydrated Fill Up! Where's my throat punching hydration, Fill Up?
My apartment building was recently repainted, for the first time in many years. The cheap painters my landlord hired left old paint chips all over the ground. So one of my neighbors tested it and sure enough, it was lead paint
I love having these deep dives on the weekends. Keep it up!!!!
There was a school in my district that tested positive for lead in the water, and it still had asbestos tile flooring. After doing the math, they decided that it was more cost effective to completely tear down the old school and rebuild. They also made sure to create a school with adequate space for the growing local population, which is the only school in the district so far to do so.
We need for Phil to have as many subs as Tati and James Charles!!
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Why don't any of you talk about a bit of history of lead... Kinda like how Lead water pipes/ ways, lead to the fall of rome via birth defects... Or how Ben Franklin was one of the first people in history to ever write about lead damage, through his observations of a aging co-worker in a print shop?
topherdavid420 kind of messed up that the “richest” country in the world can’t even provide clean water
Thanks for making this comment. I hadn't even considered the history of this topic! I've got some reading to do!
@@Nickmillertime America's not even close to being the richest country in the world lmao
Victor Olesso lol that’s what I was going for. We’re 20 trillion in debt. Italy is falling apart with just 2 trillion.
topherdavid420 many say the fall of Roman Empire is mostly attributed to lead pipes
People shouldn't have to worry about their pipes potentially hurting them. The building bloods of this country, piping, sewers, roads, tunnels, schools, are all falling apart. This shouldn't even be a possiblity, yet right now it's a reality. We're being failed as a people because those in power are being selfish, dismissive, or outright negligent. Things need to change before everything falls apart.
Problems with the schools nowadays:
Water
College board
Many others (but mainly the two above)
I remember when one of my friends worked for a company the pulled lead pipes out of the ground. He used the lead to cast ammunition for his muzzleloaders because the lead is so pure
Hmm.
You know, one well documented effect of long term exposure to lead is lower intelligence.
This explains so much about America
In every military housing we have lived in the past 4 years, we had to sign a paper that we were told about the lead in our home and pipes. Out of my 4 children, the 2 that were born in military housing both have/had severe speech delays and one has behavioral issues. My almost 6 year old has an IEP for speech and goes to classes twice a week. Both my children born in WA state, off of the military base, are advanced in school and started speaking and reading very early. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Also this past year there has been articles in The Army Times describing the military housing “crisis”.
No throat punch no like, daddy.
Also I ordered a throat punch shirt the day you put it out and I haven’t gotten it yet. What gives??
#NoThroatPunchNoLike
Yeah my order states "Unfulfilled" also
@@Grinnar Damn that's a burn
The public schools I went to in Midlothian Virginia recently tested for higher than average lead.
I read about this 3 years ago... ITS STILL HAPPENING!? If by 30, and I'm a millionaire, I'll help ya'll out.
Yeah people just assume because it's out of the news the problem has been fixed, I live in flint and assure you that not only is it still a problem but that Nestle is the only one still giving out any free water and that's because they pay the state nothing for getting it from the lakes and want to keep it that way, there's also donation water still coming from 6 churches but it's nowhere near what it was at its height
Happy to see the Lead problem in Flint is back to where it was.. with that said why haven't the news covered the places that are WORST than Flint? It would be nice for the government to at least focus on the worst cases first and continue from there, not just the problems shown on the news 24/7.
Yes! Another mini Documentary video. I like these a lot.
Is there a single thing about the American school system that doesn't fucking suck? I've known dozens of Americans over the years and the ONLY guy who had a passable school experience was a preppy rich kid who went to a private school. Even those seem to suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind two countries so close can be night and day.
I honestly still think my schools (drinking) water is what I call “under filtered sewer water” even though it makes no sense
In my school their was a leak, so they placed a bucket under the leak to prevent a spread. At the beginning of the day it appears like dirty, grey water, but at the end when all the water dries up, you can see a layer if lead at the bottom of the bucket.
Wow only 99 views im early
When we moved in to our house that we are renting I had our water tested and it had lead in there. We installed a home whole house water filter system and no more lead.
I love this format Phil!!! The m-t pds and f-s extra shows !
Thank you Phil
THE WATER IS TURNING THE FROGS GAY!!!!
When I was in 6th grade, they told us not to get water from certain sinks in the bathroom and certain rooms. Don’t use the sinks, don’t drink the water. 3 years later as a freshman when I go to visit, they still have signs on their bathroom sink “Nonpottable water, do not drink!”
Is throat punch me daddy Phil still relevant? If so, throat punch me daddy Phil
this kind of shows what we need on the interweb !!!
The highest in the nation was a B+???
why are you surprised, this perfectly explains NA intelligence
@@HappyDragneels_page I love it when morons lump a whole group of people into one category because all they can do is make blanket statements with their iq level.
@@Feynvel i love it when people take everything in life at face value and don't understand the concept of jokes.
you must be real fun at parties, shame you dont get invited to any :)
To make things worse they flushed the pipes before EPA testing at Flint, they still have toxic led levels but because they ran the water for 10-15 minutes before doing the testing when it is supposed to be left over night. Check out Status Coupe they made a documentary they’re currently working on getting distributed
I don't let my son drink school water. I send him with filtered/bottled water every day.
Schools should, at the very least, have some form of vending machine or other means to get bottled water. There's no excuse to not provide students the means to access clean water.
@@katrinal353 totally agree. Unfortunately he's still in elementary school and the district won't allow vending machines on campus. His teacher brings small bottles of water but it's hardly enough.
@@the_real_rascal Yeah, I think this is a policy issue. Were I grew up (not the US), all schools have canteens that kids can buy water, food, etc. I consider this a very basic right for students.
No throat punch no like
Typically after a long break the water fountains give yellowish water
183 views 189 likes : thinking:
Hempfield highschool in landisville Pennsylvania frequently has white colored water in its drinking fountains
Now that explains the adhd problem in school. So sad.
Almost all the places I have lived in my life has had less contaminated paint, pipes and/or water.
Is this an issue in other countries? I’m from Britain and this situation is making me worried about my own tap water and the blind trust I’ve put into the government to deliver such a basic thing as tap water. If America can’t get it right whose to say other countries are.
It also boils down to companies with millions or billions of dollars not wanting to put their hands in their pockets for the solution - especially when it's children involved. It would be a long and arduous task to replace all of the lead pipes and/or install filters but in the long run it's probably cheaper for them to pay out the lawsuits.
America doesn't do what's right, it does what's profitable.
My cities schools have had this probelm for a long time, you can even taste that the water in the fountains are not normal. The students know not to drink it.
Went to Europe and drank tap water from the faucet in 5 different countries with no problem because the EU has very high standards regarding water quality, but I would be scared to do the same in Florida because obviously the government doesn't care 😴😴
Similar to my hometown of Newark, NJ, we were not allowed to drink the water at all. Which is still an issue, but the new mayor is trying to fix it. Also, there were a few schools that had to be shut down, torn down, moved and rebuilt due to asbestos and lead used to make the buildings. So this happens everywhere.
As a man born in Flint and still living in the same county I have to admit their have been moments of great pride and also shame with what has happened. As a American I never even consider water being a issue. It was almost something so basic that it shouldn't require any argument. Clean water should always be available. Water bills are still being issued for lead filled and unusable water to citizens that had nothing to do with the contamination. Accountability has been difficult to find and the frustration from a lack of progress has been pushed aside for far too many years. In my opinion this is a national emergency. If this is a precedent for a acceptable reaction then I fear for the next city that finds themselves with similar issues in America.
need more awareness on this thats for sure.
I live and work in the Ithaca city school district, I was in high school when they found the lead and turned off the pipes and put in water towers in all the hallways for us to drink out of. Our superintendent has gotten awards for being cheap af and for all 3 years they had the lead and then 2 more years I worked in a elementary school in the district they were saying it was in all the pipes in the ground and that eventually they would have to go in during the summer and fix it and it was gunna cost a bunch of money. Then out of no where a test was done in the middle of last year and they said it wasn’t in the pipes it was in the faucets and the water fountains and all they had to do was change those. I refuse to drink water at my school I bring in a water bottle every day I don’t trust it.
This is why I only drink water that's been heated and filtered.. mostly through ground up beans or with malts and hops.
There is not enough money in this world to fix the problems we have.
This is really sad, my mom is a prof & teaches neuroanatomy. The saddest part is that lead poisoning is irreversible, lead will permanently bind to neurotransmitter receptor sites. It basically permanently shuts down those pathways. Find good water filters, use them and replace the filters as directed on the package, guys!
I remember my first day at my new high school I tasted the water and told my friend “ This tastes like how your hands smells after grabbing a whole bunch of quarters”. My school is 125 years old. Needless to say I don’t ever drink the water unless I have no other choice.
I went to school for 12 years and never saw anyone drink water out of the water fountain.
I live in flint and drive local school buses, the one thing that still gets to me is part of why they switched water to save until they could connect to the new kwa water line from port huron which we've been help fund for over 10 years, while the line now runs past flint almost to Lansing the governor stopped us from connecting to it less than 1/4 a mile away, the general sentiment of locals (and I know how this sounds) is the wealthy elite (citizens of Lansing) don't feel like sharing water with the lower class (anyone living in flint)
Phil.. For real thank you for covering this. I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Our water has such a strong chlorine smell to it that people naturally started to wonder... Wtf. So the water companies sent out to thousands of residents these bottles to fill with our tap water. I got one too. Filled it up and sent it back for them to test. A solid year later noone heard anything from it. Cool. Guess our water is OK then? Nope. Turns out someone paid and got their water tested independently, and that while the chlorine was high, It was the lead that was worry some. You'd think this would be all over the local news. Again.. Nope! I read about this in a a small free publication that is usually only found in coffee shops. So as someone who has to live here with that.. Thank you for bringing light to the issue.
The way water is used in schools compounds the problem. Many drinking fountains will only be used intermittently, in between class, at lunch, that's about it. The rest of the time the water is just sitting there, and if the pipes are lead, it's accumulating lead. It's even worse after it's had time to sit all weekend! If there's any question about the lead content of the pipes you're drinking from, make sure to let the water run for a little bit first! It helps a ton.
My state got an F... And people wonder why I never drink the water at my school
my high school didnt have filtered water, it was the same water that came from toilets and sinks. it also tasted like straight up metal.
Things like this continue to expose the systemic problems this country has with the wealth gap. The poor and middle class cannot afford massive changes to infrastructure, yet the burden is still placed on them by the rich and powerful through taxes, lobbying and corruption.
The very same people who often keep quiet on the issues until they're so widespread that everyone can see, and who don't typically have to encounter them themselves and so have no motivation to spend that almighty dollar on a silly thing like actually helping those around them.
Of course the only thing the school boards are worrying about is how much it will cost to put filtration on the water. Its kids we are talking who can't do anything to help the situation. Its disgusting honestly. The health of the kids should be prioritized over money
Another big problem is lead paint, most American houses have led paint and no one seems to even speak about it??
i live in michigan but not very close to flint, and even then the running joke at my school is that you can taste lead in the water and that the water at the school is "poisonous!", tho the water only actually taste weird so i dont drink it unless i ran out of water i brought from home. its been like this since maybe before i started going to the school basically.
our school has been shut down before because they found insanely high lead levels. my city is in the top 20 US cities with worst water. water has been shut down before because our entire city only has one company and our pipes havent been updated since they were initially to put in and nothing has been done about it