Safe drinking water? That’s another matter. Too expensive. Too hard to schedule. It’ll take at least 15 years. Meanwhile, over 3,000 central Regina homes are hooked to aging City infrastructure that is leaching lead into their drinking water at alarming rates, as reported in the Leader-Post in 2019 as part of a national investigation. Among a lengthy list of threats, lead is linked to low-weight babies, kidney damage and early onset dementia. Children face lower IQ, learning disabilities, hearing problems and slowed growth. The city has known about the problem at least since 2017, when a random study of 89 central Regina homes recorded some sky-high lead levels.