Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/20/tea-loving-british-love-coffee.html
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Soooo … drinking the groundwater isn’t going to do a thing for me in the morning?
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No, the linked article says that groundwater is contaminated by caffeine. Apart from the headline and two non-sequiturs, the article doesn’t specifically attribute that to coffee.
It probably is coffee, but we can’t say so on the basis of this article. 
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10.33 micrograms per liter? So 10.33 ppb?
For context, the EPA action level for lead is 20 ppb.
It’s not clear what the implications are. One of the limitations of the study is that it does not shed light on long term trends. Caffeine is also very water soluble, unlike a lot of organic contaminants mentioned in the study–so does that mean that Britons drink more (anything)? Isn’t the easier way just to track caffeine consumption?
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Cocaine snorting British love cocaine so much it contaminated their drinking water
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Caffeinism is a religion, not a diagnosis!!!
Bigots!
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“Symptoms of caffeine poisoning include nervousness, irritability, restlessness, insomnia, headaches and an irregular heartbeat.”
Sooooo, basically the same as being WITHOUT coffee?
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No hyphen on the compound adjective “tea swilling,” yet a needless hyphen on the “Puerto Rico is a tax-haven for rich mainlanders” headline. Go figure.
Without wishing to be horribly rude, you are aware that there is caffeine in tea right?
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