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Potable Water:The designation 'potable water' is related to very strict quality criteria. In fact, potable water is the most strictly controlled food of all! The production of healthy and pure potable water is a very complicated and expensive procedure. In many countries a sufficient supply of potable water is very difficult or almost impossible! Experts from the UNO estimate that 1200 to 1500 million people in 30 countries have no or hardly any access to pure water. Austria, on the other hand, belongs to the three countries with the best potable water in the world! The Viennese water rises in the alpine glaciers and is one of the healthiest and purest waters of the world. In most parts of the world the potable water is obtained through wells. Ground water is the most important source of potable water for humans. Various treatments and purifying steps like filtration or chemical and biological purification are necessary to get absolutely pure water. Only 0.3 % of the water on the earth can be used as potable water! Our potable water is subjected to very strict quality controls. There are well-defined threshold values for all important components:
And other parameters like:
These threshold values have to be observed unconditionally. |
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