AT&T says lead cables in Lake Tahoe “pose no danger” and should stay in place

Gutotito, 11 months ago

Wait until people realize how much of our water infrastructure is built with lead piping.

Madison_rogue, 11 months ago

The only thing keeping that piping from contaminating the water supply is proper water chemistry. If politicians cut funding to water treatment plants, this will be a problem. This is what Happened to Flint, MI.

SJ0, 11 months ago

Ignoring for a moment the actual story, it’s sort of mind blowing to imagine that humanity has created 200,000 miles of anything.

Obviously we have, but it’s still crazy. The earth is only 25,000 miles around.

TrismegistusMx, 11 months ago

The real danger here is that AT&T might have to spend a fraction of its insane profits to clean up a mess it made.

Unaware7013, 11 months ago

Who are you kidding? With telecom company track records, they'll get the government to pay for it then just keep the money and not fix it.

Late2TheParty, 11 months ago

Ya know, somehow I find it hard to believe anything they say. They are the same company who said their acquisition of Time Warner would lower prices and then immediately raised them. arstechnica.com/…/att-promised-lower-prices-after…

DarraignTheSane, 11 months ago

I find it hard to believe anything they say because they’re at&t. If they said the sky was blue I’d go outside to verify it.