Water, water, everywhere and plenty of good stuff at Bruniquel

The maire of Bruniquel Michel Montet in the presence of the architect M. Boissiere  unveiled the new station for water treatment which will cover the area of Bruniquel/ Puygaillard and the two communes.

So you lucky beggars in that area will have super water quality with no rise in the price of your water.

Well done that Maire, he does seem to be a mover and shaker, and he managed to get the opening in just before the elections, smart guy.
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Water quality, "nowt wrong with it, gerrit down yer" says a Frenchman

God knows why he would say it with a Lancashire accent but Malc has just been talking to a local villager Albert.
Albert was filling up his bottles at the old water source in Varen  so Malc stopped to ask him if he was sure the water was OK.
Albert says he and other French villagers have never stopped using the source although it is no longer tested. "Tastes much better than tap water and nobody has ever been ill" he says. Malc then asked if he boiled it before use and received a nonplussed "No."
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Problems over 5 months with water at Penne.

Dear Val,
You are correct that if the water is bad the village will notify all the residents.  We got a notice in the mailbox telling us not to drink our water because the bacterial levels were very high.  They are trying to fix the problem, but so far we still can't drink our water.  It's been almost 5 months.  
Marcos water solution
This doesn't sound too expensive, but unfortunately for our water problem I don't think this is the answer as it doesn't take our the bacteria, which is what we are dealing with.
Ali
Val says  we use so much water, drinking it ourselves and then giving it to the animals ( we do have water barrels where we collect water, for the donkeys buckets) but you must use bottle water for everything, even cleaning your teeth I suppose, 5 months is a long time.

Ali,

 Les osmoseurs where Marco talked about, are working with a filtratrion osmose inverse what elimenate also bacteries/microbes. The membrane lets through only water molecules, so very pure water.

 Miranda

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Clean water on tap

Dear Val,

 

The price for an osmoseur will cost between 300 – 350 €. Than you have clean drinking water free of chlore, heavy metals etc.

The waterfilters Finlay is talking about are only to get the chlore and bad smell out of the water, they cost here around 130 €.

To get the calcaire out of the water, you have to count around 1700 € for a good adoucisseur. Prices HT and without installing equipment like pipes etc. For the installation it depends the situation. If you are interested, Marco can pass by to see and make a quote (Ent. Marco Jean 05 63 24 07 33, marco-jean@wanadoo.fr).

 

For an osmoseur it is recomendable to have also an adoucisseur but it is not an obligation.

 

If there are more readers who are willing to order an osmoseur or adoucisseur, maybe we can regroup and negiociate the price.

 

Marco and Miranda

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Water results published every week

If you go to the Mairie in your  town and village, you will find a notice board where every week the water quality of your village will be published.
I would prefer knowing that it was always going to be good, in my hectic life I am sure going to the mairie board every week will never be feasible.
One assumes, as in Penne if there is a real problem with quality the maire's office will contact each resident... one assumes.
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Anne is very lucky, Ali at Penne is unfortunate, ours is passable

I expect you have already found this but thought you might be interested

in case you haven't.  I was happy as Castanet has the best water quality.

http://www.quechoisir.org/app/carte-eau/

Anne

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There are ways around everything.

Hi Val

Couldn't your drinking water tap live under the sink? One of those brass outdoor types, that would screw to the side of the cupboard, just inside the door.

We have a freshwater tap like this in our utility room, whose supply bypasses the adoucisseur (for a better taste). I'm thinking I might add the filtration Miranda suggests to just that tap.

Val says sounds like a possible way forward.

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Waterfilters

Screwfix UK, who now dispatch to France,  supply two filter kits, one at £33.99 and one at £69.99, which are quite easily fitted by any reasonable DIYer. Just remember to double check for leaks, I forgot and paid the price.
Finlay Neish
Val says   Thanks for that information Finlay. Finding a reasonable DIYer could be a problem in our house, but Malc could give you a reasonable game of bridge or boules! I wonder how we could have a second tap when we have a double ceramic sink surrounded by a tiled work surface?
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Could be an alternative to plastic bottles

Dear Val,

There is an alternative for the polluted drinking water rather than buying bottles of water. You can install an osmoseur underneath your water bassin. Than you have two tabs, one specially for drinking water. We have it now for more than 5 years, and everybody drinking it is very asthonised that it is tab water. No smell of chlore. And no plastic bottles for the environment. An osmoseur get more than 98 % of the ‘dirt’ as chlore, sulfates and phosphates of the water.

It is an investment but, the amount you pay for bottles and the risk, it is worth wile. The filtres has to be changed once a year but then you can drink your water again worrie free for a year!

The most ideal combination here is an adoucisseur for the calcaire and an osmoseur for good drinking water. Marco can give you more information about installing, prices etc.

Miranda

Marco Jean, for all your building needs tel 0563240733 Marco has an advert in the side bar.

Hi Miranda

Would it be possible to let us know roughly how much of an investment we are talking about, we may be interested.

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Water, our life source and safe quality water, our right.

Dear Val,
Very interesting article.  We live between Vaour and Penne and haven't been able to drink our water since November.  We were told there was some type of bacteria growing inside the reservoir.  They were going to treat it and then let us know when it's safe to drink again.  We still haven't heard anything.  When it rains our water can be a bit brown for a few days.  Now I'm beginning to wonder if it's worse than what we were told.  What I don't like though is having to buy water in plastic bottles as we drink a lot of water and it's a shame to have so much plastic going into the recycling bin.
Ali
Val says I agree about the plastic bottles, but see no alternative at the moment. As I say a question we must ask of our local representatives.
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L'eau du robinet polluée à la source

This story was also in the Depeche which seemed to indicate it is the smaller communes at risk where the water comes from various sources and has no Inspector of the water quality and no system of disinfecting. There are 1,300 small communes like this in Midi Pyrenees.
When we first moved to Varen there was [ still is] a water source in Varen where we all used to go and fill our drinking water bottles,  the water tasted so good and was tested every week by the local pharmacist.[ Malc says'' it was passed by the local pharmacist!''] It stopped  being tested a few years ago as it was found to have pollutants and it was too expensive for the pharmacy to do daily checks. Now there is a sign up saying that it is not drinking water.

Les analyses dénotent de sacrées faiblesses dans le domaine bactériologique. «Il s’agit toujours de petits réseaux dans des communes où il y a plusieurs captages, parfois aucun employé communal, et aucun système de désinfection. En Midi-Pyrénées, 1 300 réseaux concernent moins de 500 habitants», fait observer Jean-Marc Vacher, ingénieur à l’ARS. Le phénomène est tel qu’en 2012 et 2013, l’Agence a ouvert des sessions pour former 400 personnes à l’hygiène de l’eau, produit alimentaire étroitement surveillé.

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