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Here's one more which may explain some of the confusion. The water in Beijing is safe to drink, until it leaves the water processing plants ...

The Beijing municipal water authority said water in the capital had passed all 106 tests for contaminants as required by new national standards that took effect on Sunday.

"Beijing met the standards at the end of last year," Yu Yaping, official with the water authority told China Daily yesterday. "As industry insiders, we received the standards a long time ago. We immediately took action to improve the capital's drinking water quality," Yu said.

Fan Kangping, director of the water quality center of Beijing Waterworks Group, said the city's water had been potable since 2003.

Problem is, the fact that the city's tap water is drinkable doesn't mean it's drinkable from the city's taps. Water is drinkable at the plants, but the 7000 km of pipes in the city, some quite old, introduce "secondary pollution." Fan says, "We have a dilemma. The water piped out is clean and safe but gets contaminated before it reaches users."

http://www.danwei.org/beijing/clean_water_straight_from_the.php