07-28-2007, 07:15 PM
[quote M A V I C]I was at one place where I was advised not to drink the tap water. It was okay to shower in, but that's it. The reason being that the water supply came from a cistern that had no quality checks and hadn't been looked at in over a year. The contents largely came from rain water off the roof of the building.
I was at another place where the water upstream was considered so high risk, that swimming wasn't even allowed. So the taps that were fed by the same water were also off-limits.
I've been to hotels where I found out certain parts of the building had plumbing problems which contaminated the tap water.
Sure if you go to a medium or large city, the supply the send out is probably okay. But just because the original supply is safe doesn't mean what comes out of the tap is. You can be in a city and not be getting city water.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're throwing out oddball ad hoc examples of local water sources (i.e. the very kinds of things that get bottled and sold on the shelves), not municipal water supplies. The sources you're talking about could not be legally hooked up to a municipal domestic water system. Nothing you've mentioned has anything to do with the quality of munipal water supplies, which are heavily regulated and monitored for quality. As far as the "certain parts of the building" issue, that seems pretty unlikely...how do you contaminate a pressurized water system in part of a building...and with what? Anyway, the same issue applies to water bottling plants...as has been well documented, many of them have records of introducing contaminants into the water.
I was at another place where the water upstream was considered so high risk, that swimming wasn't even allowed. So the taps that were fed by the same water were also off-limits.
I've been to hotels where I found out certain parts of the building had plumbing problems which contaminated the tap water.
Sure if you go to a medium or large city, the supply the send out is probably okay. But just because the original supply is safe doesn't mean what comes out of the tap is. You can be in a city and not be getting city water.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. You're throwing out oddball ad hoc examples of local water sources (i.e. the very kinds of things that get bottled and sold on the shelves), not municipal water supplies. The sources you're talking about could not be legally hooked up to a municipal domestic water system. Nothing you've mentioned has anything to do with the quality of munipal water supplies, which are heavily regulated and monitored for quality. As far as the "certain parts of the building" issue, that seems pretty unlikely...how do you contaminate a pressurized water system in part of a building...and with what? Anyway, the same issue applies to water bottling plants...as has been well documented, many of them have records of introducing contaminants into the water.