Question:
The Drinking Water Inspectorate confirmed yesterday it had checked the Thames water supplied to the factory and found it free of bromate. Because it is unsafe at high levels, standards for bromate in tap water are strictly monitored. ideas?

Answer: The problem with these waters are if they have excess nitrates, which are not good for us. I know of no scandal in France but would not exclude one now an then. I think a distribution of a nitrate contaminated bottle water in France was forbidden a couple of years ago, it came from Bretagne where the water table is polluted by nitrates coming form agricultural pollution.

One of the problems in Southern California is that the Colorado River water has been contaminated by perchlorate from the Henderson Nevada. This is a facility which produces ammonium perchlorate for solid state rocket fuel. Waste material has gotten into the water table and this has fed perchlorate into river.

So the irrigation water being used in the El Centro area is contaminated to some extent. The Salton Seas is not contaminated, apparently there is a bacteria which can exploit the perchlorate, which is a "energetic material".

I don`t know where the problem is now and if the water is totally cleaned up before human consumption in that area.