On Sat, 06 May 2006 12:30:00 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

|On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:26:34 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
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|On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:00:29 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:
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||On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:42:23 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
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|||Its generally safe to drink boiled water from anywhere, apart from the
|||outflow of a chemical company.
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|||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.
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||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.
|
|I don't buy water in plastic bottles, only glass.

Wish I had that much cash :-(

|The only Life without risk is death.
|
|Of course, so why spoil it with foul tasting tap water?

Our tap water straight off the Yorkshire peat moors tastes fine.

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