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Re:In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree by lostlogin on Friday April 05, 2013 @04:23PM (#5500830)
Has anyone got any idea about the contamination of water through pipes? Is it a real risk? I know it may be theoretically possible, but has this been documented? My attempt to search this are contaminated (sorry) by hits on stuff the pipes themselves contaminate water with.
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Re:In Search of the Cookie Dough Tree by ScottBurson on Friday April 05, 2013 @05:45PM (#5501256)
My guess is that the diffusion rate through the plastic pipes is very small compared to the average rate of water flow.

But I'd love to see measurements, particularly if they're taken early in the morning, when the flow rate has probably been low for several hours.

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