On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:06:29 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

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

|On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:26:34 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
|
|On Sat, 06 May 2006 11:00:29 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:
|
||On Sat, 06 May 2006 10:42:23 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
|
|||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.
|
|I don't buy water in plastic bottles, only glass.

Wish I had that much cash :-(

That depends on where you shop.




|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.

I'm sure that that's true. Do they have to add calcium salts to
buffer it back up to a reasonably pH neutral level?




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..andy