UK tap water unsafe?
Discussion
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-607...
"Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.
A BBC study found PFAS levels exceeded European safety levels in almost half of the samples taken."
"Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.
A BBC study found PFAS levels exceeded European safety levels in almost half of the samples taken."
Scrump said:
GetCarter said:
Wouldn't ever drink water from a tap in England.
Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
Any views on Welsh and NI tap water?Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
hyphen said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-607...
"Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.
A BBC study found PFAS levels exceeded European safety levels in almost half of the samples taken."
None of the samples exceeded the UK safety level."Scientists are concerned that the allowable levels of toxic PFAS - known as "forever chemicals" - in UK drinking water are too high.
A BBC study found PFAS levels exceeded European safety levels in almost half of the samples taken."
“ Guidelines from the UK Drinking Water Inspectorate state drinking water must contain PFAS chemicals at no more than 100 nanograms per litre (ng/l). Above that, action must be taken to reduce levels.
Working with Greenwich University, the BBC took 45 tap water samples. Laboratory analysis found that none exceeded the 100ng/l level.”
Lightweights all of you, if a few chemicals in your drinking water bother you. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LBjSXWQRV8
GranpaB said:
Scrump said:
GetCarter said:
Wouldn't ever drink water from a tap in England.
Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
Any views on Welsh and NI tap water?Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
It just tastes terrible and you really need to read, what is done to it before it reaches your tap.
If you can't taste the difference between water and tap water, and are not interested in what you are actually drinking, then just carry on drinking it. :0)
Like others I gave up on tap water long ago, the smell and taste was enough, but this report wouldn't have made me switch now if I hadn't already done so. The levels found were typically well below (one-tenth) of the 'take action' level, and how a scary list of multi-factorial diseases can be so strongly linked to an entire family of admittedly stable chemicals at exceptionally low concentrations is quite something, a link with grant funding looks possible though. To interact and cause harm in vivo, a substance will itself be changed by the interaction, or it's not interacting. Yet these agents are said to be 'forever'. Perhaps something was lost in translation for the coffee table (any coffee present made without using tap water, of course).
Still, if this worries people, drink bottled water anyway, just mind the phthalate from the bottle plastic...
OK so trek out to the nearest natural spring source of pure uninfected natural water each time you need some H2O, and good luck with that.
Still, if this worries people, drink bottled water anyway, just mind the phthalate from the bottle plastic...
OK so trek out to the nearest natural spring source of pure uninfected natural water each time you need some H2O, and good luck with that.
GetCarter said:
GranpaB said:
Scrump said:
GetCarter said:
Wouldn't ever drink water from a tap in England.
Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
Any views on Welsh and NI tap water?Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
It just tastes terrible and you really need to read, what is done to it before it reaches your tap.
If you can't taste the difference between water and tap water, and are not interested in what you are actually drinking, then just carry on drinking it. :0)
GranpaB said:
Scrump said:
GetCarter said:
Wouldn't ever drink water from a tap in England.
Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
Any views on Welsh and NI tap water?Gave that up about 30 years ago when I found out what I was drinking (and how it tasted).
...and BTW, I never drink from a tap in Scotland either!
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