Drinking water

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:59 am

i know what you mean..i am lucky enough to have a deep well...and a filtration system on my water supply..so i love my water...city water gags me...if you are not used to the chlorine it is like drinking swimming pool water...auuuuuuugggggghhhhhhh

it is not that water is bad in other places but natural to that particular area are organism that are in water..and when you travel and ingest them..you get sick...cause you are not used to them and have no immunities to them...i believe anyway....

Tater Tazz · Post by **Tater Tazz** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:42 am

I also had well water growing up! Now, I have city water, yuck! I buy bottled water.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:44 am

Magenta we have perfect drinking water straight from the tap here in the North East of Scotland :-4

Post by **spot** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:01 am

magenta flame;665380 wrote: Is well water another name for bore water? we drink bore if we run out of tank in summer.It is, yes.

English tap-water is packed with chlorine to keep the bacteria count low. An easy way to deal with it is to fill a jug from the tap and leave it in a fridge for a couple of hours. The chlorine preferentially evaporates out and leaves the water chlorine-free. It's quite like spring water at that point.

Would you like the reason for all the chlorine too?

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:29 am

lies !

The Rob · Post by **The Rob** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:41 am

There is no chlorine in our water here, and our tap water tastes horrid anyway. I filter it before drinking.

We used to drink bottled water, but since we've realized that all of those bottles are simply going into landfill and creating more waste, we've stopped.

[love]light · Post by **[love]light** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:48 am

There aren't many things to brag about in Memphis, TN. Here are the few we have:

1. Elvis

2. Blues music

3. Drinking Water (they bottle it and sell it nationally). Its better than 99.9% of the bottled water you could buy.

Lasgo · Post by **Lasgo** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:52 am

the drinking water here in yorkshire is fine straight from the tap:)

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:44 am

My town has well water, and it's really good. Amarillo's water is from Lake Meredith and tastes nasty. I'm not sure if they do it in any other state, but in Texas when driving into towns you'll see a sign ranking the town's water. Ours is rated excellent.

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:46 am

Our tap water here is just fine for drinking. Good old Devon water.

Best water I have ever tasted was in Canada, lovely cold fresh water straight off the glacier!! (tap water lovely there too)

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 8:58 am

Imladris;667822 wrote: Our tap water here is just fine for drinking. Good old Devon water.

Best water I have ever tasted was in Canada, lovely cold fresh water straight off the glacier!! (tap water lovely there too)

hehehehe

beavers pee in it you know and fish have sex in it you know... oh never mind we have tastey water indeed....

In this city however it's loaded with chlorine and flouride ah well I have not died yet

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:08 am

don't trust tap water.

minks · Post by **minks** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:10 am

SlipStream;667839 wrote: don't trust tap water.

I do my theory is it's not likely the tap water that is going to kill me in the end. :wah:

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:20 am

Imladris;667822 wrote: Our tap water here is just fine for drinking. Good old Devon water.

I nearly said "Camelford" but that's just over the border, isn't it.

There was a slight mishap at the height of the North Cornwall tourist season (I'm telling the others, Immy, not you!) ten years ago, when 20 tons of Aluminium Sulphate powder (which is very soluble) was mistakenly dumped into the mixing chamber next to the top-up reservoir feeding water into the Camelford main water trunk. Within two days it had been drunk by the citizenry of half a dozen towns along the coast. Once the vomiting and diarrhoea had stopped, the country started to hold its breath to see what the long-term toxicity might be like. I think most people have forgotten about it by now. Some people have described permanent memory loss and impairment. The government resolutely refuses to accept any linkage, which won't surprise anyone at all.

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:22 am

spot;667845 wrote: I nearly said "Camelford" but that's just over the border, isn't it.

There was a slight mishap at the height of the North Cornwall tourist season (I'm telling the others, Immy, not you!) ten years ago, when 20 tons of Aluminium Sulphate powder (which is very soluble) was mistakenly dumped into the mixing chamber next to the top-up reservoir feeding water into the Camelford main water trunk. Within two days it had been drunk by the citizenry of half a dozen towns along the coast. Once the vomiting and diarrhoea had stopped, the country started to hold its breath to see what the long-term toxicity might be like. I think most people have forgotten about it by now. Some people have described permanent memory loss and impairment. The government resolutely refuses to accept any linkage, which won't surprise anyone at all.

I was living just down the road from there when that happened. Our water wasn't affected but I worked with someone who was right in the middle of Camelford then. It was quite a worry at the time and for a while after. I moved away from there 19 years ago and haven't heard much since until recently when I read an article about people who have contracted cancer and various other illnesses. Their difficulty is proving the link but rare forms of cancer in the same small area - hmmm. Say no more.

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:44 am

Imladris;667865 wrote: I was living just down the road from there when that happened. Our water wasn't affected but I worked with someone who was right in the middle of Camelford then. It was quite a worry at the time and for a while after. I moved away from there 19 years ago and haven't heard much since until recently when I read an article about people who have contracted cancer and various other illnesses. Their difficulty is proving the link but rare forms of cancer in the same small area - hmmm. Say no more.

The government 2003 interim report said that local cancer rates were lower than neighbouring and national rates (if I remember right - there'll have been a weasel word in there) - I'm sure they're accurate in what they say but avoiding the issue as far as the specific claims are concerned.

Here's the bit:8.35 A study of the cancer incidence rates from 1988-1998 in the Lowermoor area (Owen et al, submitted) found that both the overall cancer incidence rate, and the incidence of leukaemia, in the population who received polluted water was lower in this period than in Cornwall as a whole, in South West England as a whole, and in a comparison population supplied by a different water treatment works (see paragraphs 5.64 to 5.65 and 5.73). Although we have noted limitations in this study, it provides no evidence of an increased overall cancer risk arising from the incident.

8.37 The data from the study of cancer incidence and mortality are reassuring and provide no evidence of an increased cancer risk from the incident. However, since the latency period for some cancers can be as long as 20 years, we recommend that it would be sensible to continue to monitor cancer rates until the end of 2008. We make further recommendations in relation to this work in Chapter 9.I cut out the bit on a leukemia cluster since the claims for that seem to relate to infection from being in the same tutor group at school rather than the water contamination.

Lon · Post by **Lon** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:50 am

magenta flame;665273 wrote: i thought about this as a thread because we were talking today about how horrible the drinking water was in Britain and America. (I was told by my travel agent not to drink the water in any of the European countries I was visiting)

I remember trying the drinking water in three states in America and couldn't get over the stench of the clorine smell. After drinking the water I didnt' feel i'd quenched my first either. (which is really weird) :-2

In Britain in the last year it was also pretty awful, again the clorine smell was overwhelming.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... e_3250.cfm

The taste of drinking water varies considerably from city to city in the U.S. as each city has their own particular treatment of water. It runs the gamut of excellent to putrid. I think the water where I live is quite excellent and yet people pay to drink bottled water.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:30 pm

buttercup;665359 wrote: Magenta we have perfect drinking water straight from the tap here in the North East of Scotland :-4

That's not quite true Butter, tap water all over Scotland is of excellent quality.

The tap water in London however has passed through around nineteen bodies before it's your turn........

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:52 pm

Chookie;667937 wrote: That's not quite true Butter, tap water all over Scotland is of excellent quality.

The tap water in London however has passed through around nineteen bodies before it's your turn........

do you think any alcohol is left in it

Post by **spot** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:04 pm

Chookie;667937 wrote: The tap water in London however has passed through around nineteen bodies before it's your turn........People so get that wrong. A proportion - by all means call it 95% if you like, that sounds fairly likely - of the molecules in a glass of London tapwater were more recently in a sewer than in the atmosphere. That makes so much more sense. It also allows you to calculate the average number of passes a molecule's been through the sewage farm since it was last rain, the answer's around 8 or 10. To get the body count I'm reasonably you need to adjust for the other uses of house water besides cooking and drinking, but it makes better headlines if you don't.

There are various ways of estimating the water cycle feedback, I quite like the measurement of female human sex hormones in tapwater myself.

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:14 pm

I cant drink water from the tap, it's gross, sometimes even when we let the tap run and boil it for a cuppa it can still taste yuk.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:10 pm

Chookie;667937 wrote: The tap water in London however has passed through around nineteen bodies before it's your turn........

Now now Spot, you know full well I conducted no scientific analysis before making the above comment. It was based on the taste of the alleged water.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:25 pm

Chookie;668030 wrote: Now now Spot, you know full well I conducted no scientific analysis before making the above comment. It was based on the taste of the alleged water.

Come on now - that must be the output of the Caledonian brewery you're describing :wah:

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:29 pm

It's amazing how you get used to the chlorine. I often have a drink while I'm in the swimming pool.

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:32 pm

Bryn Mawr;668040 wrote: Come on now - that must be the output of the Caledonian brewery you're describing :wah:

No, that isn't alleged water. It is rumoured to be alcoholic refreshment.

Post by **Bryn Mawr** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:11 pm

Chookie;668646 wrote: No, that isn't alleged water. It is rumoured to be alcoholic refreshment.

Malicious rumour - cannot possibly be true!

I mean to say, have you ever tried drinking the stuff? :wah:

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:15 pm

Only in an emergency............