Eustice bans foreign mineral waters ...

Zoejory

Kali2

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Oh for goodness sake, Kali2. Don't you read anything??

The EU has plenty of its own sewage floating around

Here's another link for you. There's plenty more info for you on other European countries if you care to look.

www.surinenglish.com/local/201903/22/inquiry-ramps-into-sewage-20190322100645-v.html

Kali2 - I remember years ago it was said ‘One does not swim in the mediterranean on simply goes through the motions’!

Railman, you are looking for a 'Brexit Bonus'? Let's all be patriotic and sing 'Rule Britannia, Britannia stools the waves'.

Could you explain how someone is going to differentiate between our crap and what is being discharged from these ships laying off Gibraltar?

Curious to know when Gibraltar moved to the English Channel (which is where our sewage is going) ...

Agree about the waste in plastic bottles, but Evian water is part of the Nestle empire - will the govt. really upset such a huge international conglomeration ? I’d not object to tap water if I wasn’t drinking chlorine - the taste is so strong even after filtering - and I CAN tell the differencein blind tasting!

Kali2

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Could you explain how someone is going to differentiate between our crap and what is being discharged from these ships laying off Gibraltar?
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Plus the Cruise liners, the ferries, private boats. Not going to be an easy task, is it? ?

MaizieD

Sorry, Witzend. I was really thinking of water in Europe.

Would water in, say, Africa still be regarded with suspicion?

Not suspicious, dangerous, drink bottled water only, plenty available even the locals don’t drink tap water.

railman

That's all well and good - but what's more important is when the ban will come in for importing foreign beers and wines.

Bang goes my celebratory Peroni, or Stella, or Chateau Neuf du Pape, and even Bitburger

Can't even do a booze cruise to Calais to get a load in any more

This is the sum total of our "Brexit Benefit" is it - the ability to ban imports of foreign water.

The Brexit Brigade have yet to inform us of any single benefit we now have as a result of leaving the EU, nor any suggestion that further benefits may arrive.

It's time to admit that we have been well and truly conned!

Well yes, perhaps medicines will actually be more impactful- as warned in 2026 and since, at the same time as chemicals for water.

That's all well and good - but what's more important is when the ban will come in for importing foreign beers and wines.

Bang goes my celebratory Peroni, or Stella, or Chateau Neuf du Pape, and even Bitburger

Llamedos13

I know, I’m ashamed!

???

Oh, come off it. You're not really

(Is Canadian tap water not safe to drink?)

Witzend I lived in Nigeria for five years. Tap water wasn’t drinkable and even local people only drank it as a last resort.

Our apartment block ran out of water one time when I had been afflicted with a ‘delicate’ stomach, shall we say. Dh had to run up and down to the swimming pool with a bucket to get water to flush the loo.

No-one is asking you to be ashamed- but it is fair enough to say this is baffling.

I know, I’m ashamed!

Sorry, Witzend. I was really thinking of water in Europe.

Would water in, say, Africa still be regarded with suspicion?

Llamedos13

Just sitting up in my cozy bed in Canada (five hours behind the UK ) sipping from my plastic bottle of water and feeling positively naughty! Must change my ways?

Why on earth are you, in your own home, presumably supplied with clean running water, drinking bottled water?

Sorry, but that has me completely baffled...

MaizieD

^Cleverest con trick ever of the French, IMO, but of course bottled water had long been a thing in France - I remember on my first school visit at 14 being warned that all too often the water was not ‘potable’.^

Goodness, we were forever being told that just about any water abroad wasn't safe to drink, not just the French stuff.

In my early 20s I worked for an airline whose routes included Lagos (Nigeria, not Portugal).

We were told by the company doctor that tests had been carried out on 3 different samples of water from the hotel where the crew stayed.
1, from the carafe supplied in your bedroom.
2, from the bathroom tap
3, from the swimming pool.

Guess which was the cleanest? Yes, the swimming pool water!
And that’s despite some of the crew once going for a very late night swim - and colliding with a dead body ?

What’s interesting is that the two top selling brands of bottled water in the UK are Volvic and Evian. People must prefer them to UK bottled water for whatever reason. Third was Harrogate.

Just sitting up in my cozy bed in Canada (five hours behind the UK ) sipping from my plastic bottle of water and feeling positively naughty! Must change my ways?

Bottled water does nothings others than line pockets of shareholders.

Kali2

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Oh for goodness sake, Kali2. Don't you read anything??

The EU has plenty of its own sewage floating around

Here's another link for you. There's plenty more info for you on other European countries if you care to look.

www.surinenglish.com/local/201903/22/inquiry-ramps-into-sewage-20190322100645-v.html

Yes, let's stick to our own regional water. Anyone from the Kent area who could recommend a beverage to enjoy with the Whitstable Oysters?

I imagine it won't be long until the French, and then other EU countries, begin to sue the UK for polluting their waters, fish, shellwish, etc- fist France as the Channel is very narrow- the tons of sewage being poured into it will not stop in the middle- depending on currents reaching Spain , Germany, Holland and others quite soon.

Katie59

France has just arrested a UK trawler for illegal fishing, more tit for tat, this round of negotiation is far from over. All sorts of restrictive measures are threatened in addition.

I heard on the news that it was a Scottish boat.

Which seems a tad ironic... Poor old Scotland didn't want any of this nonsense...

Cleverest con trick ever of the French, IMO, but of course bottled water had long been a thing in France - I remember on my first school visit at 14 being warned that all too often the water was not ‘potable’.

Goodness, we were forever being told that just about any water abroad wasn't safe to drink, not just the French stuff.