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Ron Jones
 
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Default Safe to drink boiled water from hot tap?

Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Fri, 05 May 2006 16:45:23 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article .com,
wrote:
Almost certainly, but do you really want to drink water that has
been held nice and warm with a selection of dead spiders, flies,
bats, rodents and other loft inhabitants in it?


FFS, how often do people have to be told the tank should have an
approved cover and venting to prevent this?


How about tanks which were fitted before this regulation was
introduced, which was in ????. Was the regulation retrospective?
Who went round providing and fitting said covers?


Retrospective? How many acts do you know that are retrospective, not
many...

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