On Sat, 06 May 2006 09:55:02 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

|In article ,
| Mxsmanic wrote:
| Germs, yes, but there might be other inorganic substances in the water
| that wouldn't be good for you, such as very high levels of iron from
| the plumbing.
|
|Iron? Pretty well all domestic plumbing in the UK is copper plastic or
|lead. Iron barrel is virtually unheard of. Header tanks were steel, but
|galvanised. If the zinc has gone the tank won't last much longer.

We still have lots of Victorian cast iron pipes under the roads, but small
amounts of iron in water causes no problems whatsoever. Look down holes
in the road, you will soon see them.
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