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It’s more that hot water will leech more lead from whatever lines do you have, including in the water heater itself. The biggest concern would generally be lead solder. There’s no reason you would have lead lines for hot water and copper lines for cold.

Also the hot water sits in a tank (in most homes) full of scale and may just taste worse.



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