On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:00:29 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

|On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:42:23 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
|
|On Sat, 06 May 2006 09:40:58 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:
|
||On Sat, 06 May 2006 00:28:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
||wrote:
||
||David P wrote:
|| I am in the UK. Is it generally safe to drink BOILED water from the
|| hot tap?
||
|| My hot water comes from a tank or cistern in the loft and this feeds
|| into a hot water cylinder which is in the house. It doesn't look
|| wonderful inside that tank in the loft but I reckon if I BOILED the
|| water then presumably I will kill the germs.
||
|| Is there another reason why I should not drink boiled water from the
|| hot tap?
||
||Its generally safe to drink boiled water from anywhere, apart from the
||outflow of a chemical company.
||
||
||Such as those who add chlorine, fluorides, chemicals to kill
||invertebrates,......
|
|Ingestion of chemicals is all about the dose, We can happily ingest a
|tiny amount of those without *any* ill effects.
|
|I would prefer not to though, and would also prefer to select the
|chemical content of what I drink rather than allowing a water company
|to do it for me.

You prefer to drink bottle water complete with bacteria, and leachate from
the plastic bottle. Bottled water *usually* contains fewer bacteria than
the legal limit.

The only Life without risk is death.

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