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Water safety

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:09pm
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Hello, I live in Albox. Can anyone tell me if it is safe to use the water to boil potatoes and veg in? 

Thank you

Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 9:53pm

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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2018 9:53pm

Diane2018 wrote on Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:09pm:

Hello, I live in Albox. Can anyone tell me if it is safe to use the water to boil potatoes and veg in? 

Thank you

Please note that under EU regulation all EU countries are tested regularly for water to be fit for drinking. Therefore if water is not fit for consumption yet another EU regulation that only UK folloe

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:44am

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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 7:44am

Hi Diane,

Spanish tap water is actually fine from a safety point of view.....it just doesn’t taste very nice.  It has a lot of purifying chemicals in it and the high mineral content of tap water in this particular area means that a lot of people just don’t like the taste, but if you simply leave a jug of water to stand until the cloudiness dissipates, it will get rid of a lot of the chlorine taste.  Personally, I use a water filter on tap water for cooking and our food tastes fine but I use bottled water for the kettle and drinking/cleaning teeth.  Regarding discarding plastic bottles, we recently found a local tap from which we can draw free spring water, so now we just take a bioplastic big container there to fill it up for free, which is better than using bottles and spending money!  Best of all worlds!  Hope this helps you, Diane!

Warm regards,

Chrissie

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:57pm

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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 4:57pm

Diane2018 wrote on Mon Dec 24, 2018 5:09pm:

Hello, I live in Albox. Can anyone tell me if it is safe to use the water to boil potatoes and veg in? 

Thank you

We drink tap water and we have had no problem we live in Albox town

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Posted: Sun Oct 6, 2019 9:21pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 6, 2019 9:21pm

Hi you can drink the water nothing krong with it.

Posted: Mon Oct 7, 2019 8:45am

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Posted: Mon Oct 7, 2019 8:45am

Hi Christie

I am interested to know where I I could find this local tap for free spring  water which you mentioned about.

Many thanks

Sal

Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:36am

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Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2019 8:36am

Hi I use a filter jug for cooking veg and for the kettle and drink bottled water .

Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:52pm

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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:52pm

There is a fuente on the road to saliente on the righthand side just a little way off the road we've ues it for years. Can't remember the name of the village unfortunately. 

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