Sentences with word «tapwater»

Most of the lead in tapwater comes from domestic lead plumbing, though there is some lead piping in the public supply pipes.

Residents in some U.S. fracking locales have linked the practice to water contamination, including incidents of tapwater made flammable by the presence of methane.

What remains unclear is whether health issues experienced by her daughter and some of her cows afterward were caused by the turbid tapwater.

She says that water companies will only have to act to reduce excessive lead levels in tapwater if it can be shown the lead comes from their pipes.

Because saltwater has intruded into underground reserves, much of the country's tapwater already tastes slightly salty.

My doctor told me to soak your socks in a mixture of 1/3 lemonjuice and 2/3 warm tapwater.

And I really don't agree with serving bottled water, even if it is local, in a place where tapwater is perfectly drinkable if filtered correctly.

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....

Many other countries in the European Union have not yet conducted surveys into the extent of lead contamination in tapwater, says Fawell.

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.

WATER companies have been saved from a multibillion - pound bill to clean up lead pollution in tapwater — thanks to a loophole in a new draft directive from the European Union.

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.

Goodwin describes the tapwater in Basrah as so salty that a filigree of crystals forms on the surface of dishes as they dry.