Paris Conditions

Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:44:48 +0000 (UTC), Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:

On 2010-11-17, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:51:43 -0700 schrieb EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):

Well, many Americans seem to distrust tap water anywhere but at home
Depends where in Europe. Northern Europe is safe, so is France. I would be
a bit careful in Spain, especially on the islands, or Greece. There they
sometimes put a lot of Chloride in the water, you don't really want to
drink that.
Tap water in the US often contains chloride.

and in UK too. It is better to have chlorine in the water than hepatitis etc.

True! Depends upon the concentration, whether it's potable or not.
When it comes out of the tap smelling like a swimming pool, it's time to
switch to bottled water! (Actually, a Brita filter works well enough,
and is a lot cheaper than buying the bottled stuff.)

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote on Sat, 20 Nov 2010
13:07:54 -0700:


Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:44:48 +0000 (UTC), Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:

On 2010-11-17, Frank Hucklenbroich
wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:51:43 -0700 schrieb
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):

Well, many Americans seem to distrust tap water anywhere
but at home
Depends where in Europe. Northern Europe is safe, so is
France. I would be a bit careful in Spain, especially on
the islands, or Greece. There they sometimes put a lot of
Chloride in the water, you don't really want to drink that.
Tap water in the US often contains chloride.

and in UK too. It is better to have chlorine in the water
than hepatitis etc.

That is the correct way to talk about it. Chloride as such, has very
little germicidal effect. Chlorine does kill bugs and you can add it as
hypochlorite, which actually forms naturally when chlorine gas is added
to water. As has been mentioned, a Brita filter does a good job of
removing the taste.


--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Martin wrote on Nov 20, 2010:

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:20:37 +0000, Mike Lane

wrote:

Martin wrote on Nov 20, 2010:

On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:44:48 +0000 (UTC), Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:

On 2010-11-17, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:51:43 -0700 schrieb EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):

Well, many Americans seem to distrust tap water anywhere but at home

Depends where in Europe. Northern Europe is safe, so is France. I would
be
a bit careful in Spain, especially on the islands, or Greece. There they
sometimes put a lot of Chloride in the water, you don't really want to
drink that.

Tap water in the US often contains chloride.

and in UK too. It is better to have chlorine in the water than hepatitis
etc.


As I'm sure you know, there's a difference between chloride, and chlorine.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...2101332AADjsSA


Tap water shouldn't contain chloride ions, but it often used to, some years
ago on Greek Islands, when the underground aquifers became contaminated
with
sea water!

I know UK tap water is chlorinated using chlorine, because I spent one summer
holiday working at a water works, on the site where the water was
chlorinated.


Yes, yes I know!

I was just commenting on a previous post that referred to "chloride" rather
than "chlorine".

--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com

20.11.2010 22:07, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) kirjoitti:


Martin wrote:
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:44:48 +0000 (UTC), Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:

On 2010-11-17, Frank Hucklenbroich wrote:
Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:51:43 -0700 schrieb
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque):

Well, many Americans seem to distrust tap water anywhere but at home
Depends where in Europe. Northern Europe is safe, so is France. I
would be
a bit careful in Spain, especially on the islands, or Greece. There
they
sometimes put a lot of Chloride in the water, you don't really want to
drink that.
Tap water in the US often contains chloride.

and in UK too. It is better to have chlorine in the water than
hepatitis etc.

True! Depends upon the concentration, whether it's potable or not. When
it comes out of the tap smelling like a swimming pool, it's time to
switch to bottled water! (Actually, a Brita filter works well enough,
and is a lot cheaper than buying the bottled stuff.)

In November 2007 tap water and "technical water" (surely not potable)
got mixed at a water treatment plant in Nokia Finland. It is assumed
that a few people died for several symptoms after drinking contaminated
water. An uncountable number of people got seriously ill.

Why this happened then? There was a pipe connecting the fresh water and
the technical water, just a valve separating the two systems. A
technician for some reason opened the valve......

A typical question was that why there was this connecting pipeline
assembled in the first place. It took months to purify the drinking
water system which serves around 400.000 people.

It isn't rare that drowned squirrels, rats and so on in pools of water
towers contaminate the water. It seldom causes a catastrophe though as
in Nokia.

Hi

We returned yesterday from nine days In Paris and Reims, and I would be
happy to provide what info I can if anyone has questions about current
conditions. We saw several demonstrations, but they didn't seem to have much
effect on the transit systems or tourism in general.

Thanks