Khmer Times Newspaper says Phnom Penh tap water safe to drink?

Macmullo · Post by **Macmullo** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:23 pm

I agree. I thought the article was funny. Trying to imply that tap water here is better than Japan, or other places. However they have "plumbing" and sewage infrastructure in those places.
It might be good at the treatment plant, but then it goes downhill fast (imagine the nasty old lead pipes).
The amazing amount of chlorine they put in the system probably kills a lot of bacteria. My sink often smells like a swimming pool after doing the dishes.
I've made the mistake of not letting the water sit when watering the plants until the chlorine evaporates and it's killed a few of them.
It can't be good for people!

sigmoid · Post by **sigmoid** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:58 pm

I used to use the tap water in Bangkok and Vientiane but with a filter something like this:

Then, run it through the hot water pot which heats it to a near boil and filters it again.

I think in PP I had the big bottles delivered, which aren't necessarily any cleaner or safer than tap water.

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:33 pm

I always brush my teeth in tap water whenever I go some place new so I can get to meet the local amoebae and whatever in small doses before, as Fourkinnel just said, getting mass exposure on every glass, plate, cup, knife, spoon, fork; any vegetable or fruit; any time you wash getting it in your eyes, nose and mouth; that time your relatives gave you water in a glass or out of a jug. There's no escape. Some guy I met said he once got a dickey stomach from some tap water and after four months of suffering repeated attacks he had to leave, as he could never avoid getting tap water at some point.

juansweetpotato · Post by **juansweetpotato** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:40 pm

TheGrinchSR wrote:Phnom Penh has excellent water treatment facilities and at the point of leaving those facilities - the water is 100% drinkable. Unfortunately, after that you have to trust that the providers of pipes between you and the treatment plant have done a good job and that there's no lead, major leaks (where impurities get in as well as water getting out), etc. That's the bit nobody trusts and as such - drinking PP tap water remains a bit of a gamble.

I agree with the Grinch. Many people drink it straight from the tap everyday. They are often the poor. Most middle class and even a lot of the poor boil it first if they can, as do I.

A friend of mine was broke so he started drinking it straight from the tap about 2 years ago. No problems so far.

Will boiling it get rid of aluminum oxide ? Someone dumbed a load of that into a water reservoir in England a while back. A lot of the residents subsequently were diagnosed with Alzheimers!!

Unless you have a high tech filter you'll always be taking a risk. Even in England it seems.

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:44 pm

never anywhere over here and why take the chance
a 20 lt bottle of filtered water is less than $.30

TheGrinchSR · Post by **TheGrinchSR** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:52 pm

juansweetpotato wrote:
TheGrinchSR wrote:Phnom Penh has excellent water treatment facilities and at the point of leaving those facilities - the water is 100% drinkable. Unfortunately, after that you have to trust that the providers of pipes between you and the treatment plant have done a good job and that there's no lead, major leaks (where impurities get in as well as water getting out), etc. That's the bit nobody trusts and as such - drinking PP tap water remains a bit of a gamble.

I agree with the Grinch. Many people drink it straight from the tap everyday. They are often the poor. Most middle class and even a lot of the poor boil it first if they can, as do I.

A friend of mine was broke so he started drinking it straight from the tap about 2 years ago. No problems so far.

Will boiling it get rid of aluminum oxide ? Someone dumbed a load of that into a water reservoir in England a while back. A lot of the residents subsequently were diagnosed with Alzheimers!!

Unless you have a high tech filter you'll always be taking a risk. Even in England it seems.

That was Camelford and it took a special kind of stupid to drink water which came out of the tap brown... but hey ho. No, boiling doesn't remove heavy metal poisoning or chemical poisoning from water - only bacterial and amoebic infections. Heavy metal poisoning can take years to show symptoms - had a mate in China who used to brag about the healthy tap water; until they flew him back to the states for a year's chelation therapy to remove the lead from his body.... he's switched to bottled water from now on.

TheGrinchSR · Post by **TheGrinchSR** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:54 pm

phuketrichard wrote:never anywhere over here and why take the chance
a 20 lt bottle of filtered water is less than $.30

Given that the household water bill is never more than $5... I don't mind splurging and drinking bottled mineral water. Though I stay away from Evian given their history of contamination...

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:04 pm

u have a water bill?
wow, never had one of those in 30 years LOL
so 30x12x$5 $1,800!!!

SinnSisamouth · Post by **SinnSisamouth** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 6:36 pm

TheGrinchSR wrote:
juansweetpotato wrote:
TheGrinchSR wrote:Phnom Penh has excellent water treatment facilities and at the point of leaving those facilities - the water is 100% drinkable. Unfortunately, after that you have to trust that the providers of pipes between you and the treatment plant have done a good job and that there's no lead, major leaks (where impurities get in as well as water getting out), etc. That's the bit nobody trusts and as such - drinking PP tap water remains a bit of a gamble.

I agree with the Grinch. Many people drink it straight from the tap everyday. They are often the poor. Most middle class and even a lot of the poor boil it first if they can, as do I.

A friend of mine was broke so he started drinking it straight from the tap about 2 years ago. No problems so far.

Will boiling it get rid of aluminum oxide ? Someone dumbed a load of that into a water reservoir in England a while back. A lot of the residents subsequently were diagnosed with Alzheimers!!

Unless you have a high tech filter you'll always be taking a risk. Even in England it seems.
That was Camelford and it took a special kind of stupid to drink water which came out of the tap brown... but hey ho. No, boiling doesn't remove heavy metal poisoning or chemical poisoning from water - only bacterial and amoebic infections. Heavy metal poisoning can take years to show symptoms - had a mate in China who used to brag about the healthy tap water; until they flew him back to the states for a year's chelation therapy to remove the lead from his body.... he's switched to bottled water from now on.

camelford,i thought it would have been bognor regis or sandwich!

have you seen the way the old people drive down there!

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 7:29 pm

phuketrichard wrote:u have a water bill?
wow, never had one of those in 30 years LOL
so 30x12x$5 $1,800!!!

Water bills are how they pay for the water supply. You're paying for it one way or another, unless you collect rain.

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