as recently as 20 years ago only 90% of tap water in france fully met the water purity norms
happily the EU stepped in and insisted that france should correct this or suffer big fines , and I am happy to report that any water supply that you cannot drink is now marked non potable ...it probably is potable , but if not regularly tested it has to be so marked
what has lead to this post ? well , this morning a white van man [ well , a little white van ] knocked on my door with a sterile sample jar in one hand and a blowlamp in the other ....come to pass some water he said ...only joking !
he wanted to take a sample of the water , no problem I said ...but there was ; he wanted an all metal tap and most of mine have things like plastic ends in them
in the end I remembered that my summer kitchen has an old fashioned tap , so off we went ....he ran the water for a while , turned off , lit the blowlamp , heated the tap sufficiently to kill any germs contained therein , ran the water for a while and took a sample
he informed me that the sample would go to the lab for analysis , the results will be posted on the municipal notice board [ actually , all the results for france are posted on a website ] any problem and the water supplier has to leap into action ; only happened once her in 20 years due to a drought lowering the water table
frequency ? 3 times per annum ; each individual network has to be done , and he tries to pick a different sample point each time
of course , if you wish to pay for water in a bottle , feel free ; most of it here is just taken out of the same supply , just like in england ....eau de source they call it !
there are of course mineral waters from spa's , whether you think of them as polluted or health giving is again up to you
happily the EU stepped in and insisted that france should correct this or suffer big fines , and I am happy to report that any water supply that you cannot drink is now marked non potable ...it probably is potable , but if not regularly tested it has to be so marked
what has lead to this post ? well , this morning a white van man [ well , a little white van ] knocked on my door with a sterile sample jar in one hand and a blowlamp in the other ....come to pass some water he said ...only joking !
he wanted to take a sample of the water , no problem I said ...but there was ; he wanted an all metal tap and most of mine have things like plastic ends in them
in the end I remembered that my summer kitchen has an old fashioned tap , so off we went ....he ran the water for a while , turned off , lit the blowlamp , heated the tap sufficiently to kill any germs contained therein , ran the water for a while and took a sample
he informed me that the sample would go to the lab for analysis , the results will be posted on the municipal notice board [ actually , all the results for france are posted on a website ] any problem and the water supplier has to leap into action ; only happened once her in 20 years due to a drought lowering the water table
frequency ? 3 times per annum ; each individual network has to be done , and he tries to pick a different sample point each time
of course , if you wish to pay for water in a bottle , feel free ; most of it here is just taken out of the same supply , just like in england ....eau de source they call it !
there are of course mineral waters from spa's , whether you think of them as polluted or health giving is again up to you