When the water board announced cryptosporidium in the water when we were in St Albans all the shops sold out of water within hours. Come home from work and without stored water you'd go thirsty, except in this case the water was perfectly useable and drinkable, absolutely no need to rush out and buy bottled water. Just needed a rolling boil for 10 mins. ISTR we got a payment for the extra energy that the boiling consumed for the week or two the restriction lasted.
No, more probably from Falkirk, where they cast the pillars for the Crumlin viaduct.
That wouldn't get through my RO filter so I could probably sell the water.
But I was talking about producing hot water in "real time" with a combi boiler rather than running stored hot water from a hot cylinder. The limitation then is the rate at which you can heat it rather than the size of the main (unless it's *really* puny).
Oh dear. We're going to die. Probably at some point in the last 15 years. Though the incoming water now at least isn't straight out of the well, but has a UV thingy on it.
They cast pillars 'ud be a tad 'ard for sleepin' on.
Is the releavant "standard", as I understand it.
For new tanks at least - it seems to provide for a properly fitting lid and insect screen(s) on the overflow pipes.
I have no issues drinking water from our loft storage tank - hot or cold although cold in the kitchen is mains and hot is heated on-demand via a thermal store.
Gordon
Ah, got you! We have a Megaflo. Unless you have a ginormous boiler, hot water from a combi is bound to be meagre. Annoyingly, it's worse in winter, when you need a hotter shower.
If you had our water pressure, even a megaflo wouldn't fill a bath in a reasonable time.
Curiously enough, one of the big London ring mains is at the bottom of our garden, so we can lend you a few bars if you like.
Byelaw 30 (2) was superseded by paragraph 16 of Schedule 2 of The Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999, although it says the same thing.
charles formulated on Thursday :
Should be or is?
Even boiled water may not be safe. The microbes may be dead, but the microbes can become poisonous. Boiling alone may not be enough.
Much safer to stick to beer --- or whisky
Not can become, may be. It would take much botulinus in your water to make you unhappy - but once you've boiled it, it won't get worse.
Andy
Storage cisterns (tanks) installed in the past 30 odd years should be potable quality. The water from them is fine, if the tank is maintained to that standard.
I wouldn't drink water from a tank I hadn't seen; mine is clean, it stays clean, I drink the water.
For goodness sake man, boil the water and there should be no problem what so ever. Man has survived a long time without treated water :)
Andrew
Makes a lot more sense to not need to bother.
In fact they died like flies when they didn't bother.
And still do where they don't.
john james was thinking very hard :
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