Does the drinking water in London come from Thames river?

Answer 1

No, it comes from reservoirs in the home counties..;

Answer 2

Thankfully no, for instance Westminster is served by Thames Water Utilities Limited whose water supplies are derived from chalk bore-holes and by Thames Water Utilities Limited, the sources of which are predominantly storage reservoirs, although some underground supplies are used. Some water from the river is used for uses other than drinking water and there has been talk of a desalination plant at some stage in the future.

But the Thames is a lot cleaner than it has been for a very long while.

I can remember a time when it was so polluted that fish could not be found in there. See the londononline link for an article on the pollution of the Thames.

Answer 3

YES !!!!!!!!!

Thames Water
Thames Water Utilities Limited supplies drinking water to about 7.3 million people living in London and a large part of central southern England. Approximately three quarters of the Company's water supplies come from rivers, principally the Thames and Lee. The remainder is drawn from wells and boreholes. The Company has 99 treatment works and distributes water through a network of almost 31,000 km of pipes and 364 service reservoirs.


Each year water companies are inspected. The 1995 inspection found that the Company's arrangements for sampling, analysis and reporting were suitable except in a few cases and that treatment processes were satisfactory. Progress with improvement programmes was found to be satisfactory. Twenty recommendations for improvements in practices were made.


The quality of the water supplied by the Company in 1995 has been generally very good. 98.9% of the 480,832 tests performed by the Company met the standards - the tests were largely made on samples taken from consumers' taps. Of the 1.1% of tests that did not meet the standards the most significant were for pesticides, coliform bacteria, and nitrite, although the number of failures for pesticides dropped sharply in 1995. There were also some failures to meet the standards for nitrate, iron and PAH.

Hope this answers your question
PHIL

Answer 4

Hate to declare this, yet water is used on the Jack Daniels plant too. JD is approximately 60% water. Bottled water will even have lines of animal cack in, after it has long previous for the time of the soil, washed faraway from surrounding area. do not overlook the insect poo and the poo on bugs legs. The bugs will fly right into a bottled water manufacturing unit! the quantity of scientific care that bottled and faucet water has to bypass with the aid of, will kill off any risky micro organism. humorous question nevertheless!

Answer 5

No, it comes fro reservoirs, but you'd think that with the current water shortage, they'd take some from the Thames, purify it & put it in the reservoirs to top it up.

Instead, we've got all these leaky pipes, not enough water & an incompetent water board, run by the Germans or Spanish, as they recently took it over.

Answer 6

no it comes from the chilten hills with thames water

Answer 7

So you saw that Doodie float down river too

Answer 8

Hello no. Would you wanna drink that water?

Answer 9

drinking water does not come from thames water.................

Answer 10

No - it comes from reservoirs and bore holes xx