Drinking Tap Water

GreyMatter said:
It's disgraceful.
You think how much bacteria must build up in the pipes before it gets to you and you blindly drink it from the tap.
No way, not for me
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Ignoring a comment I could make about your user name in connection with your post. 1.The water companies carefully calculate the amount of residual treatment required to distribute to the tap without causing off tastes. 2. There are more controls on what can come out of a tap than those that cover mineral water in bottles. 3. The original chemical treatment of piped water at the turn of the 19c saved thousands of lives by significantly reducing deaths from typhoid, cholera etc. Now what is your basis for claiming bacteria in the pipes other than your imagination?
 
bluethrunthru said:
There seems to be a small but growing opinion that the tap water up here in the North East is not fit for drinking. No idea where that has sprung up from really but given we are mostly probably fed from Kielder I'd say its bollocks. I do think its harder water than that we got in Gods own country Lancashire which was soft and highly palatable but its softer than I had the other week down in Christchurch up here so not an issue.

As I have said previously we have had 7 new estates built around here in about 5 years and there are a lot of Southern accents you hear presumably folk who have moved up from Darn Sarrf and suffered Thames waters shite and are still buying loads of bottled water ( see them leaving supermarkets with trolleys full of bottled water ) but as far as I can see the tap water is fine - plus its all from the same source so we flush our bogs with drinking quality water so its probably safer to drink from the bowl than from a tap in Flint Michigan.

Is it just something else vaccine deniers and flat earthers are latching on to now?
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I never understand the people who make these arguments.

They say water and vaccines cause cancer and yet I bet they smash 5-6 pints in the beer garden at the weekend, a class 1 carcinogen. Maybe they get a sunburn in the beer garden, a class 1 carcinogen. They might smoke or sit around people who do smoke whilst there, a class 1 carcinogen. And then they'll wash it all down later with processed meat, a class 1 carcinogen. And then they'll get taken home in a petrol car (they hate EV's) whilst bleating on about how we need to burn coal again, more class 1 carcinogens.

To be honest I think they can be safely ignored. Tap water is perfect with a Brita. :)
 
We drink it 'from the tap' as the fridge freezer water and ice dispenser is from the mains. Never a problem for us.

One thing we have noticed since moving here (Fylde) from Manchester is though, our kettle needs descaling about once a month. It's a clear one and can see the calcium build on the base, and particles in the water. I always thought that was a Southern thing, and clearly we are further north now ... odd.
 
GreyMatter said:
It's disgraceful.
You think how much bacteria must build up in the pipes before it gets to you and you blindly drink it from the tap.
No way, not for me
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Bearing in mind Perrier have just been done by the French government for lying, for years, about their procedures and water quality, I'll trust the tap over bottled every day.
 
MCFCTrick said:
We drink it 'from the tap' as the fridge freezer water and ice dispenser is from the mains. Never a problem for us.

One thing we have noticed since moving here (Fylde) from Manchester is though, our kettle needs descaling about once a month. It's a clear one and can see the calcium build on the base, and particles in the water. I always thought that was a Southern thing, and clearly we are further north now ... odd.
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I live in Kidderminster and our home kettle needs descaling regularly but the one in my office never need doing. Depends on where the water comes from. Many years ago I repped for a company selling commercial dishwasher chemicals (and other related stuff). Got called out by a newish customer to an 'emergency' with a tunnel dishwasher only to find the floor about a foot deep in suds. They had forgotten to tell us that the water supply switched sometimes from the water company to a local supply from a bore hole. The hardness of the water was completely different.
 
Still got lead piping around our way, all supposed to have been changed in the privatisation agreement. Difficult to know if it's driven people mad here in Failsworth, especially those who worked in the hat factory.
 
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