Good news for Tesco and Asda shoppers

[Harbo]

Not every country in the world has safe drinkable tap water - I've just come back from Spain where the advice was not to drink the tap water?
I remember years ago the same advice was given when travelling in France and other European countries.

Rod

 

[gus3049]

Not every country in the world has safe drinkable tap water - I've just come back from Spain where the advice was not to drink the tap water?
I remember years ago the same advice was given when travelling in France and other European countries.

Rod

I think you will find that civilisation has reached across the channel by now.

 

[Jonzjob]

Which way Gordon? North :twisted: :twisted:

I've been in several countries in the far east, middle and near east and Africa where drinking the water was not advised, but where it was OK I've never seen it go out of date?

 

[MrA]

I worked in the Middle East for a few years also, I would buy bottled water and boil it, sterilise the bottle and put the water back into the bottle to cool before refrigerating. Maybe that's why I was always thirsty.....

 

[Jonzjob]

That's where ale comes in me-thinks :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

 

[Harbo]

In Tudor times, folk drank ale all the time as water was unsafe - gallons of the stuff but fairly weak!

Rod

 

[Jonzjob]

That's where ale comes in me-thinks? I do believe that I have heard that before :roll:

I've seen what fish do in water. They don't get out when they want a wee you know :shock: :shock:

 

[Setch]

Not only is that where ale comes from, it's also why all folks of European background have the ability to tolerate alcohol - albeit to varying degrees. The reason Australian and North American aborigines are so disabled by alcohol is the abundance of clean water meant they never developed brewing, and haven't been subject to generations of natural selection developing the ability to drink without disabling consequences.