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	[quote name="blackwater"]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36758680">here</a> Lead in water isn't a problem because it will just sink! Lead atoms are heavier than water atoms, geez guys. THINK ABOUT IT, SHEEPLE. [quote] derefr 7 days ago \| root \| parent \| next [–] I understand how lead-lined Roman aqueducts would put lead into drinking water — there's nowhere for the lead to go but to stay in the water, since the lead lining is below the water. But I'm unclear on how lead that had leached into groundwater would remain in groundwater. Shouldn't the lead, being heavier than water, drop out of the groundwater and get caught up in the soil? Isn't this the primary filtering function we expect of soil — the reason aggregate is used as a filtering medium in wastewater treatment? If not, wouldn't you expect to hear about water tables that have problematically-high natural levels of this or that heavy metal? Wouldn't you expect that it'd be deadly to drink groundwater that had ever flowed through any underground ore deposits? [/quote] The telco is deliberately publicizing its lead pollution problem so that it can drop service to hicks. THINK ABOUT IT, SHEEPLE. [quote] toast0 7 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [–] The conspiracy theorist in me wonders why the telcos want us to know there's lead in the wires now. Maybe so they have an excuse to tear the wires down and end services in areas they don't care to service anymore. Maybe so they can get more subsidies to run fiber that they'll promise to connect people with, but won't ever need to account for. [/quote] Why didn't anyone ever write a story about lead PLUMBING? THINK ABOUT IT, SHEEPLE. [quote] hypercube33 7 days ago \| prev [–] Just wait until journalists figure out we used lead extensively in plumbing... [/quote] And there are tons of other bad takes, mostly from people who didn't read the articles and don't realize that the lead is actually leaching in a measurable way from these cables. Including a guy who thinks that "getting even a little metallic mercury past your skin will kill you." (absolutely not, old-timey people used to drink glasses full of the stuff, it's harmful but not instant death)[/quote]