On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:01:27 +0100, Christian McArdle wrote:

Yes. Birmingham water is pretty disgusting. I was glad to go back to
Reading. I basically only drink water and beer, normally.

Thinking about it it might not be peat in Brums water but rust from the
cast iron pipes that bring from the Elan Valley. At least it is soft. St
Albans water wasn't nice, hard and the lime scale would be some rather
intresting shades and green and blue... Up here our water was hard when
it came from an adit just up the hill, but very clean white scale. We've
since been switched to a reservior supply from the top of Weardale, soft
and clean. B-)

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