Transcripción del resumen del autor. To address possible concerns regarding the potential risk from gasoline ether oxygenates (GEOs) in groundwater, to the taste and odour of UK drinking water, a joint Environment Agency and Energy Institute (EI) study, first carried out in 1999/2000, was repeated in 2007/2008. Industry and government data indiate that GEOs do not pose a widespread risk to the quality of potable groundwater resources in the UK. Incidents where public water supply wells are adversely affected are seldom reported and likely to be rare events. Gordon Lethbridge, a member of the El Soil, Water & Waste Working Group, summarises the finding of the recent study

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