Britain's Drinking Water Inspectorate last week revealed in its annual report that as many as one in five homes in Britain may exceed the proposed new European safety limit of 10 micrograms of lead in a litre
of tapwater.
Not exact matches
What remains unclear is whether health issues experienced by her daughter and some
of her cows afterward were caused by the turbid
tapwater.
Most
of the lead in
tapwater comes from domestic lead plumbing, though there is some lead piping in the public supply pipes.
Many other countries in the European Union have not yet conducted surveys into the extent
of lead contamination in
tapwater, says Fawell.
The WHO is about to lower its recommended limit for arsenic in
tapwater to 10 parts per billion (ppb), a fifth
of the current limit in Britain and the rest
of the European Community.
My doctor told me to soak your socks in a mixture
of 1/3 lemonjuice and 2/3 warm
tapwater.
The people who successfully sold the horror
of «Frankenfoods» are doing a good job convincing people that earthquakes, poisoned aquifers and explosive
tapwater are inevitable if fracking is allowed....