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Dave Fawthrop
 
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Default Safe to drink boiled water from hot tap?

On Fri, 05 May 2006 21:45:44 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

|On Fri, 05 May 2006 16:46:56 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
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|On Fri, 05 May 2006 11:37:54 +0100, Owain
|wrote:
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||Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|| The hot water from a *combi* boiler has not been stored and so is good for
|| drinking. It sometimes looks milky, but this is only air and has no effect
|| on portability.
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||If the water is aerated can the water company be sued or fined for
||supplying adulterated merchandise, or for the inaccuracy of the water
||meter reading 1 litre of water when in fact it's less than a litre of
||water that has been supplied?
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|Air in water is an *advantage* it improves the taste slightly.
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|It needs to. Tap water is a disgusting thing to drink.

Ours is quite pleasant, but it comes straight off the Yorkshire peat moors,
not from the Thames, or a borehole which has lost all its air millennia
ago.
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