How clean is our drinking water in Soho? Find out here!

Ever wondered how clean the water from your tap is when you fill

up a pan for your veggies or pour yourself a glass?  Thames Water have reports on its water

quality for the UK and by simply adding your postcode, you can see how the

water purity fares against the rest of the UK.

By the looks of things, Soho doesn't come off too bad for its

water quality in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully there were no reports

of E. Coli, Enterococci or Coliform bacteria (all of which are nasty organisms

which are often found in faeces, yuck!) at levels which contravened the

prescribed concentration or value for Thames Water, which no doubt would make

Dr John Snow very happy! The only area which was a cause for concern was the

levels of Metaldehyde present in the samples, which were taken throughout

2009.  Metaldehyde is often present in

pesticides and is often sold as a molluscicide (slug pellets to you and me!) and be toxic to humans in

large quantities. So it was rather worrying to read that there were "six

infringements to report for metaldehyde" despite the report concluding that the

"levels of metaldehyde detected were not harmful to health".

Overall, Thames Water claim that the Soho water supply is "very

good quality", but for many of you, bottled water is the only water you'll

drink, which has problems of its own, when you consider the environmental

implications of all that plastic wastage.

So are you happy to drink the water in Soho? And do you think

these reports are exhaustive enough? Whatever you think, let us know.

How clean is our drinking water in Soho? Find out here!

Ever wondered how clean the water from your tap is when you fill

up a pan for your veggies or pour yourself a glass?  Thames Water have reports on its water

quality for the UK and by simply adding your postcode, you can see how the

water purity fares against the rest of the UK.

By the looks of things, Soho doesn't come off too bad for its

water quality in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully there were no reports

of E. Coli, Enterococci or Coliform bacteria (all of which are nasty organisms

which are often found in faeces, yuck!) at levels which contravened the

prescribed concentration or value for Thames Water, which no doubt would make

Dr John Snow very happy! The only area which was a cause for concern was the

levels of Metaldehyde present in the samples, which were taken throughout

2009.  Metaldehyde is often present in

pesticides and is often sold as a molluscicide (slug pellets to you and me!) and be toxic to humans in

large quantities. So it was rather worrying to read that there were "six

infringements to report for metaldehyde" despite the report concluding that the

"levels of metaldehyde detected were not harmful to health".

Overall, Thames Water claim that the Soho water supply is "very

good quality", but for many of you, bottled water is the only water you'll

drink, which has problems of its own, when you consider the environmental

implications of all that plastic wastage.

So are you happy to drink the water in Soho? And do you think

these reports are exhaustive enough? Whatever you think, let us know.