It would be harder to taint water drawn up from the aquifers, but it's not impossible.

Use some common sense when you see a tainted water source.

But reports indicate these tanks are full or over-flowing with tainted water, experts said.

The servants whispered that their deaths had been caused by tainted water and food.

Hepatitis E virus is shed in feces and spread via tainted water and food.

Smaller amounts of tainted water are thought to have breached other tanks and pipes.

We're simply not bested by bad air or tainted water.

Other complaints attributed to tainted water include children's sickness, skin rashes and neurological disorders.

Hell is before him: and of tainted water shall he be made to drink:

They drink of the tainted water, and know it not.

Lead- tainted water has been blamed for exposing thousands of children to long-term effects on their health.

One caveat is the sewage- tainted water, which most New Yorkers consider too polluted to swim in.

The complaint says residents have suffered neurological, gastrointestinal and dermatological symptoms from exposure to tainted water.

I flushed, vodka- tainted water heating my muscles.

More than 200 people reported nausea and other symptoms linked to the tainted water supply, medical officials said.

So far, the groundwater influx has had a diluting effect, although the volume of tainted water has increased.