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IN BRIEF: Tap water `improves'

Tap water `improves'

The quality of tap water continued to improve last year. The Drinking Water Inspectorate reported that the 31 companies supplying water carried out nearly 3.5 million tests and 99.3 per cent of those passed all the health and taste standards

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