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[eezageeza]

Does the local water authority not test your water supply?

I recall a member from many years ago having a private water supply but the local water authority was somehow involved and, after testing, insisted they had to have a UV filtration system installed in order to meet statutory requirements. As I recall, they had never had any health issues before the filtration was installed but had more problems with their spring-fed supply drying up in very dry weather and having to use a water bowser until the flow started again.

As for having access to 'experimental' antibiotics/remedies, I'm not entirely sure if that's a good or a bad thing

We have a private water supply - a borehole in the garden - and for the first decade or so that we lived here we'd ge a visit from a local authority chap every couple of years. He'd take a water sample, and issue a report declaring our water safe a couple of weeks later.

Those tests must have fallen foul of 'the cuts' at some point, and we haven't had our water tested for at least15 years I'd guess. No casualties yet!

We have 2 neighbours (ish - they each live maybe a quarter of a mile away, in opposite directions) and they take their water from the same aquifer, and also seem to be surviving.

None of us treat the water in any way - it comes out of the ground into holding tanks in our lofts, and then out through our taps.

 

[Cubist]

Does the local water authority not test your water supply?

I recall a member from many years ago having a private water supply but the local water authority was somehow involved and, after testing, insisted they had to have a UV filtration system installed in order to meet statutory requirements. As I recall, they had never had any health issues before the filtration was installed but had more problems with their spring-fed supply drying up in very dry weather and having to use a water bowser until the flow started again.

As for having access to 'experimental' antibiotics/remedies, I'm not entirely sure if that's a good or a bad thing

Sorry, forgot to reply to this one yesterday but...

No. As per @eezageeza 's response the local water authority has shown no interest during our tenure. Considering the state of so many British waterways these days that's not surprising I suppose. When we first moved in I was a little concerned by the 'gift' of a couple of gallon bottles of mineral water left by the previous owner - which prompted early engagement of the First Ladies brother - but the putative need to maintain such reserves has never materialised. Barring for the occasional power outage no other threat has reared its ugly head.

Oddly enough though, I recently noticed a water bowser parked at the end of neighbours driveway a couple of weeks back but it turned out that their old pump had finally given up the ghost and they were struggling to get an early date for a team to come along to install the new one - theirs, like ours, is about 350 feet down.

I'm not quite so concerned by the remedies that may be available from said brother-out-law. The First First Lady at one time worked for an agricultural feeds supplier in the NorthWest. She, and I, were appalled by the huge volumes of antibiotics and other ingestible medicines routinely added to those products and, presumably, to later be excreted over the farmland. The news in recent years of such agricultural waste appearing in the nations waterways is though far less surprising than that in some parts off the country high measures of cocaine and other so called recreational drugs have been found - which may in turn go some way to explain the perception of increased poor behaviour among the population at large.

Hmmm, maybe I should have another chat with the brother outlaw.

 

[Flyfisher]

The news in recent years of such agricultural waste appearing in the nations waterways is though far less surprising than that in some parts off the country high measures of cocaine and other so called recreational drugs have been found - which may in turn go some way to explain the perception of increased poor behaviour among the population at large.

Never mind the population at large . . . . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59539589

 

[Cubist]

Never mind the population at large . . . . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59539589

Yeah, but to be fair, most of them were off their heads long before they ever sampled the more exotic products.

 

[Flyfisher]

Indeed, which is the worrying thing.
I have little concern for what they may or may not personally 'sample', it's the fact that they are supposedly in charge of things at the same time that bothers me!

 

[Cubist]

Indeed, which is the worrying thing.
I have little concern for what they may or may not personally 'sample', it's the fact that they are supposedly in charge of things at the same time that bothers me!

It could be worse I suppose... especially with so many of em angling for 51st Statehood.