> It's a pity that we don't have more community/volunteer organizations in our country that can get this kind of work done. It's something that's going to be ridiculously expensive and time consuming to have professional crews do. But the majority of the work involved is not particularly difficult or hard.

Interesting idea. I think this would increase civic pride a lot in the US. However, I can't imagine the unionized plumbers present in most of the cities that have lead pipes would be particularly happy about it - they're probably looking forward to a guaranteed job for a few years.