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[Fishing at Surfside]

I've seen a number of articles like this one...

BEIJING — Avoid drinking tap water during the 2008 Olympics -- unless you're living in the Olympic Village. That was the advice from a high-ranking Beijing official on Wednesday, explaining the city's attempt to "guarantee water safety" for the Olympics.

He acknowledged the billions spent to clean and modernize the Chinese capital haven't been enough to provide potable tap water.

"The quality of the water provided by the water plants is safe enough," said Bi Xiaogang, vice director general of the Beijing Water Management Bureau.

"The water is contaminated during the secondary supply process, in the transfer of water. Therefore it is not safe to drink from the tap," Bi said. "We are still working on upgrading the secondary facilities. But in the Olympic Village we will provide safe drinking water from the tap."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/2007-05-09-3179851128_x.htm

[Fishing at Surfside]

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