Kris Krieger wrote:


I actually don't know how much lead (from pipes) would eb dissolved
into water - I'd haev to aska chemist. But they used lead fro pretty
much everything it seems, fromlining cups and other food vessels, to
everyday items and utensils, and so on. It might not have been any
one thing, but when you add it all up together, what's most amazing
to me is that *any* of them survived.


Considering it took Rome longer to fall than the U.S. has been in existence,
the alternative explanation is that the hype over lead is, um, exaggerated.