London tap water - safe to drink?

Is it safe to drink tap water - but there is plenty of residual powder in my kettle and I'm quite hesitate to drink the boiled water.

Coming from Scotland, my kettle had not accumulated as much as "white powder" for a year as it does in London for a month. Anyone has the same problem? Do you realise many powder-like residual in the kettle?

Reply 1

Scarlett_Jewel

do you mean limescale? that's just because it's a hard water area. I mean I don't know that for a fact, but that's what I'd assume. So you just need to de-scale your kettle more frequently.

London tap water's fine to drink: millions do :wink:

I did t'other day!

Reply 2

monkeymayhem

Of course its safe, were not in a developing country!

Reply 3

Vampyrcorn

Aw my comment got deleted. It was just a joke. You'd have to be a right idiot to take me seriously and actually put arsenic in the water. :frown:

Reply 4

20083

Yeah, just limescale. We don't get it in Scotland cause we have soft water.

Reply 5

scribble_girl

Also means you have to use tons more bubble bath down here compared to Scotland, and up there it takes longer to wash all the soap out of your hair.

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When I moved down to Devon for the summer (soft water) from Surrey/London (hard water) it used to take me bloody hours to get all the shampoo out of my hair. Oh well. Live and learn eh?

Yes, london water is fine to drink :p:

Reply 6

generalebriety

Scale is just salts and ions in the water. It's not grit or anything. :p:

Reply 7

fleur de lis

It's just a hard water area, it's safe :smile:

Reply 8

sweet_fluffy_nuke

you should drink beer not water because beer has been blessed by the blessed ambrose.

it is a conspiracy by aliens to get bad alien salts into you and then when they turn on their mind control rays you will turn

into a large turnip like slave to the alien overlords who will then do hienious things to you until you learn to spell heinious better than i can but i can tell you that it is alllllll bad bad bad and ...oh no they are coming to get me save me from turnipification.

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