Drinking water in France.

After seeing the state of some of the Aire’s Service points and the vercinity of the drinking water tap to the toilet waste area I think I will carry on with Mrs QFour’s bottled water.
 
Drinking water in France

Hi
The water is fine.
The best accessory I have fitted to my vehicles over the years is a Nature Pure water purifier.
Fit one and you can drink beautiful water straight from your tank wherever you are.
Best Alshymer.
 
No problem with

French EAU (very) POTABLE.
We simply fill our tank taking the obvious precautions (as in other posts)
Tank water used for cooking and boiled drinks.
I quite happily drink the water..
My wife prefers water at room temperature which has been boiled..So we put too much water in the kettle and once it has cooled "bottle it".

However for those who prefer it buying bottled water is cheap and easy !
 
hairydog said:
I don't think that anyone has ever suggested there are more microplastic particles in bottled water than in tap water. And at present there is no evidence that microplastic particles are harmful.

The point I was making is about phenols which are in the plastic that the bottle is made of. They leach out of new plastic into the water in the bottle (particularly in warm storage environments), and are known to be endocrine disrupters. If you are past the age of having children this is probably less of a concern than for people (particularly women) who may have a baby in the future. But it is still not good for you at all.

The reason I say you should tip the bottled water away, rinse and refill the bottle with tap water is that tap water won't have been contaminated by phenols from newly-made plastic.
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Can you post a link to any reliable and valid research?
 
hairydog said:
My experience is that whenever someone asks that question, they will reject any link you give. All I could do to find such a link would be to Google for it. Better that you do the same.
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If research is valid and reliable then it wouldn’t be rejected. I struggle to believe something because it’s posted on a forum.

I thought as you seemed well informed you would be able to back up what you posted.
 
I don’t really know about bottled water, I was hoping you would enlighten me, as you seem well informed. I’m well educated enough to be able to read research and reports. If reports appear valid and reliable, then it’s difficult to argue with them.

You must have based your beliefs on something, so I was hoping you would share. You can pretty much get google to agree with anything in my experience, so randomly searching on there for something like that is a futile occupation.
 
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Assume the tap you're using has been shoved right into a toilet cassette very recently. If you've spent any time near a service point watching the goings on, you'll realise half of all motorhomers don't understand why there are 2 different taps on service points and are very eager to ensure the insides of their cassettes get a good wash.
 
If there's two water taps on an aire, the potable one (drinking) Will be the one with a thread on the end.
The smooth one is not guaranteed drinkable.
 
I often wonder where bottled water comes from. I remember Delboys bottled water plant :lol-049::lol-049:
Always be wary of taps at aires there arn,t any thst haven,t had a cassette pushed up over them an not always by frogs
 
POI Admin said:
France is not a third world country ... :D

The water is of course absolutely fine. I would suggest care with taps at the Aires. Perhaps a quick wipe with an antiseptic/antibacterial wipe is recommended in case it is not entirely clean.

Much as you would do in the UK in fact.

Bottled water is cheap. But plastic bottles are an issue for the environment, and allegedly plastic by-products can leach into the water.
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Worth bearing in mind, however, that there have been localised problems in the Yonne département in particular, with water supplies being polluted by pesticides. (I saw a French TV report in the spring this year). One commune, for example, has been without a piped potable water supply for two years (and when an alternative supply was found, use was banned due to high loss rate from ancient pipework).

Yonne : un village est prive d’eau potable depuis deux ans - 22/08/2018 - ladepeche.fr
 
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