Tap water quality
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23rd April 2019 at 9:55 am #470193
Does anybody know if the quality of tap water is good enough to drink?
We’ve been drinking it for years but lately we’ve started getting headaches. We have a friend staying at the moment and she’s developed the same symptoms. The headaches started a few days after work was done on the water pipes in our village. Has anybody else experienced this?23rd April 2019 at 10:41 am #470211This concern me Wiz , I always drank the local water no problems at all, it is great for you hair too. I think I would take a sample of your tap water to the local chemist ( in my day they tested it on request ) just to put your worries away! 🚰🚰🚰
23rd April 2019 at 12:02 pm #470236Here is a government web site with the water analysis results. The problem is if something has happend between the date they tested the water and now, you of course won’t see it on the site.
Here is another web page with advice to test the water, but it is in french
23rd April 2019 at 12:07 pm #470237Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out.
Our neighbour has the same problem. They’ve got someone from the water company there now who asked for a sample of our water. I think it’s best to stick with bottled for now.23rd April 2019 at 12:16 pm #470241Yes, I think it’s too much coincidence. Wise to stick to bottled.
Like you we’ve always drunk tap water and never had a problem Wiz, but I know when the electricity company damaged a pipe whilst carrying out work here we had mud coming out of the tap when our water was switched on (not an exaggeration, it was mud!) so as you’ve had some work done there it wouldn’t hurt to check and it seems that is what’s happening if they have taken a sample already. If you still get headaches from drinking bottled water of course then it isn’t that!
Our daughter remarked when she was here that our water is very soft here, so that’s a positive I guess.
Anonymous23rd April 2019 at 2:17 pm #470270Because we drink a lot of water ( at least 1.5 litres a day ) we only drink bottled water. I drunk the tap water for the first 5 years after moving to France and I had stomach problems, so changed to bottled. Our tap water is not within the pH norm and is , at 5.7, classed as acid water.
They used to accept water for testing ( for free) in our local pharmacy , but now it has to be taken to Limoges and costs €64 to have the test done.
Holy Cow! I just checked out the link that Babeth posted (the first one). Unbelievable number of toxic chemicals in our water. Allegedly in only trace amounts but it begs the question how they got there. Not the obvious ones like glyphosate or paraquat, but stuff like TRICHLOROÉTHYLÈNE which is an industrial solvent used for degreasing metals before electroplating processes.
The first month or so after we turned up in France about ten years ago, we filled the kettle from the cold tap.
Then we looked in the bottom of the kettle at the sort of greeny-brown stuff at the bottom, the kettle also smelt bad, so it’s been bottled water for drinking ever since- shiny clean kettle!
Our mairie used to publish the results of “regular” water analysis on their website.
Strangely, the results didn’t vary from one year to the next, summer or winter, dry year or wet year, make of that what you will!
Apart from when we first arrived and only had well water, we have drunk tap water for all of our 22 years here – so far, so good. I actually don’t like the taste of bottled water, must have got used to the rough stuff! That’s not to say everyone should do so of course, we all decide what’s best for us, just saying that as yet we haven’t come to any harm.
24th April 2019 at 9:36 am #470404Been drinking the tap stuff for 14 years, so far so good, but no room for complacency. I have heard people mention how much fertiliser stuff runs off the land into the water supply which does make you wonder
Anonymous24th April 2019 at 9:57 am #470413It will obviously depend on where you live , the catchment area, the treatment and “anything else” that is done to the water before it comes out of the tap. Our commune sends a detailed report on the water quality with each bill, so we know what is in it. There should be no fertiliser in the water supply because the area around springs used for public water is strictly controlled in France.
24th April 2019 at 10:27 am #470431Just another thought on the headaches Wiz and looking at the post on air pollution, have you got rapeseed near you? Or have the farmers been extra busy with spreading and/or spraying? Just a thought
Thanks Fruitcake. We don’t have any rapeseed near by but the local farmers seem to be spraying quite frequently.
My guess, Tom, is that these headaches occur mainly in the morning, in which case it’s nothing to do with the water. :D
Yes this has happened before but I put it down to the water then as I only drank windex.
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