Drinking water

[Bod ...]

How much is this an issue to you and what have you done to improve the water you are drinking?

Boiling tap water can remove 80 per cent of the microplastics in it

Tap water contains tiny particles of plastic and we don’t know how they affect our health – now it seems that boiling the water for 5 minutes can remove most of them

www.newscientist.com

This does concern me.

 

[blup]

Microplastics are everywhere and a concern in the food chain and their use in clothing. But more important to drink plenty of water which is something you can control.

 

[Bod ...]

Microplastics are everywhere and a concern in the food chain and their use in clothing. But more important to drink plenty of water which is something you can control.

Yes but we do need to educate ourselves on how.

How do you mean?

I do drink Evian and Pellegrino as well as tap water. I've looked into some sort of water system in the past but not 100% that the answers

 

[blup]

Yes but we do need to educate ourselves on how.

How do you mean?

I do drink Evian and Pellegrino as well as tap water. I've looked into some sort of water system in the past but not 100% that the answers

A liver consultant somewhere said you should drink several litres of purified water a day. But drinking a couple of pints of tap water even in hard water areas has to better than none.

 

[Bod ...]

A liver consultant somewhere said you should drink several litres of purified water a day. But drinking a couple of pints of tap water even in hard water areas has to better than none.

It was actually the Diabetic specialist that said about the bottled water.
Our tap water is really quite nice but it is hard. I have an inline conditioner fitted but I'm not sure what it's limits are.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

A liver consultant somewhere said you should drink several litres of purified water a day.

If by purified, he also includes brewed - no problem.

 

[JonathanM]

Why don't the water companies just filter out the microplastics?

 

[Bod ...]

Why don't the water companies just filter out the microplastics?

That's what the article says

 

[Northman]

Why don't the water companies just filter out the microplastics?

They do. Very effectively.

Sink to River - River to Tap - A review of potential risks from nano-particles & microplastics

A XPOR powered site.

ukwir.org

The UK treatment works remove microparticulates to a level barely measurable. The study reported in New Scientist is from China, so one wonders what the source of 'tap' water used was. With reported levels of 1mg/l it doesn't sound as if it was treated in any way comparable to European tap water. The report I linked to above shows levels in UK raw water of around 4.9 particles per litre, and in treated tapwater of 0.00011 particles per litre. Those are vanishingly small levels.

 

[Stivino]

With reported levels of 1mg/l it doesn't sound as if it was treated in any way comparable to European tap water.

The Water Quality Regulations 1989 was a European Directive adopted by all European countries. So, everything is comparable.
Scotland adopted the 1989 regulations in 1990, and it became The Water Supply (Water Quality) (Scotland) Regulations 1990

 

[JonathanM]

The UK treatment works remove microparticulates to a level barely measurable. The study reported in New Scientist is from China, so one wonders what the source of 'tap' water used was. With reported levels of 1mg/l it doesn't sound as if it was treated in any way comparable to European tap water. The report I linked to above shows levels in UK raw water of around 4.9 particles per litre, and in treated tapwater of 0.00011 particles per litre. Those are vanishingly small levels.

I drink about two litres of tea a day, and nothing else. So, on that basis, I have calculated it would take me approximately twelve and a half years before I consumed a single microparticle from tap water. If my sums are right!

 

[Brigadier]

I drink about two litres of tea a day,

Bravo, Sir

 

[gas112]

Why don't the water companies just filter out the microplastics?

what about the plastic pipes to and within the house

 

[gas112]

They do. Very effectively.

Sink to River - River to Tap - A review of potential risks from nano-particles & microplastics

A XPOR powered site.

ukwir.org

The UK treatment works remove microparticulates to a level barely measurable. The study reported in New Scientist is from China, so one wonders what the source of 'tap' water used was. With reported levels of 1mg/l it doesn't sound as if it was treated in any way comparable to European tap water. The report I linked to above shows levels in UK raw water of around 4.9 particles per litre, and in treated tapwater of 0.00011 particles per litre. Those are vanishingly small levels.

there is a major concern about the micro plastics being realised by service pipes to houses and from the pipes within the house . Article on it in one of the trade mags this week

 

[Bod ...]

what about the plastic pipes to and within the house

More worrying for some is the lead pipes supplying many properties.