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

On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:14:45 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

|On Sat, 06 May 2006 13:06:29 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:
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|On Sat, 06 May 2006 12:30:00 +0100, Andy Hall wrote:

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||The only Life without risk is death.
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||Of course, so why spoil it with foul tasting tap water?
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|Our tap water straight off the Yorkshire peat moors tastes fine.
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|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?

They used to stop the lead pipes dissolving, not sure about now.
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