TEPPFA - Clear Waters in Building

Clean drinking water is a vital and scarce resource requiring only the best protection on its way from the source to the consumer.

With respect to plastics in contact with drinking water, TEPPFA is aiming at optimum consumer protection by ensuring a high and consistent level of drinking water quality carried in plastic pipe systems. Our members are fully committed to this objective.

Throughout the world, our pipe systems are used by water supply companies for transporting and delivering water right to the home. Inside the home, they are used to transport water to kitchen and bathroom taps, showers, baths, washing machines etc.

Over the last 50 years, plastic pipes have gained popularity and are today the preferred material for drinking water supply in many countries. Plastic pipe systems used for the supply and distribution of drinking water are mostly made from PVC, C-PVC, PE, PP, PB, PEX and PE-RT.

To be used in drinking water supply and distribution, all plastic piping systems need to comply with very strict and legal requirements related to human health criteria; applying detailed assessment procedures.