Las Vegas brass fitting corrosion litigation

Named site of the dezincification class actions; Colorado River water cited as aggressively corrosive.

They started selling PEX. There have been hundreds of millions of dollars worth of settlements in Las Vegas and other places, and there are still billions of dollars worth of lawsuits, because some material scientists on the West Coast have determined that this type of brass — the leaded brass we've been using for about a hundred years — is defective. And all the homeowners whose houses are underwater on their mortgages — this is an externality — are suing to have the builders replace all their plastic pipe because of these brass fittings.