Lead from Plastic Water Pipes: is Anyone safe?

As we all know, when plastic plumbing pipes came in, the main reason was the expectation of a reduction in heavy metal contamination, caused by acidic water in copper pipes with brass and lead brazing. There are still many older homes with copper and lead pipes, -and in cities with acidic water, such as Melbourne and most places in Tasmania, this means a toxic heavy metal brew in the first glass of water each morning.

Now we hear that the plastic pipes are creating lead contamination! How could this be? It seems impossible, but it's just another example of 'progress' hurtling ahead and changing all previous 'status quo' assumptions.

And just to add fuel to the fire, another report from Ireland says that the government is telling our Irish friends that there is no need to filter their water. I wonder if the Irish authorities have talked to the Professor who authored the above report? I guess not.

Here's the report.