March 31, 200818 yr I have a couple of questions about tap water in Thailand and hopefully someone in the know has the answers. #1 It is advised NOT to drink the tap water here in Thailand. Why is that? Bacteria? Chemical pollution? Both? #2 If the tap water not drinkable, can it safely be used to wash food items that will be consumed? How about in cooking? Have discussed with friends and all seem to have differing opinions. Help!!
March 31, 200818 yr Even the water company says not to drink the tap water. I don't know why, but I go by that advice. I really don't want to find out the answer the hard way and bottled water is readily available and very cheap. I use tap water for showering, brushing my teeth, washing dishes, and washing food items such as fruit. I have never had any problem, no matter where I am in Thailand. I use only bottled water for cooking. The only exception I make is boiling eggs in tap water. Again, I have never had any kind of a problem.
March 31, 200818 yr It would be nice to know the type of problem the water has that makes it non-drinkable. There are water filter/purifiers that backpackers use to purify lake and stream water to be drinkable. Wonder if those would work on this water?? I follow GB program on the use of tap water, but would be very happy to find out what the specific problems are....Or, maybe I won't want to know.
March 31, 200818 yr There are water filter/purifiers that backpackers use to purify lake and stream water to be drinkable. There's a way to test that. Use the water purifier, drink a glass of the water before you go to bed, and set your alarm clock for 7:00 AM. When the alarm goes off and you wake up to turn it off, then you passed the test. If you don't wake up, then you flunked the test . . .
April 1, 200818 yr If you don't wake up, then you flunked the test . . . Now Gaybutton, I must say that that is a very big help....NOT!! Perhaps you would like to try first???? LOL
April 1, 200818 yr Like everyone else, I follow the same routine as GB. Although, I remember about two years ago the then Mayor of Pattaya made a big show about the safety of Pattaya tap water by drinking a glass of it at a press conference. Don't know what happened to him, though. Maybe he flunked GB's test.
April 1, 200818 yr Perhaps you would like to try first???? I did try. You've seen what I look like? That's what did it to me . . .
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