While it’s true that the Boring Co. is feeling the heat from regulators after illegally dumping toxic chemicals into manholes, officials say Southern Nevadans have nothing to worry about when they turn on their taps.

“This is not poisoning our drinking water,” said Bronson Mack, a spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, in a Friday interview. “We have robust water quality monitoring activities and state-of-the-art drinking water treatment systems that help ensure that issues like this do not negatively affect the drinking water coming out of the taps of residents and businesses.”

An investigation from Fortune released on Wednesday focused on the Boring Co., billionaire Elon Musk’s company that is building the Vegas Loop, an underground network of tunnels near the Strip.

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