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EnsenadaDr
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Sounds good to me. The chlorine in the water is what might hurt you, and you can't build up a resistance to chlorine. Too much might do you
harm. | Quote: | Originally posted by MitchMan
The following is not scientific.
In La Paz, I shower in tap water, I wash dishes in tap water and always allow the dishes to completely dry before using utensils or dishes. I always
and only use the hot water tap for washing dishes as that water source has past through the hotwater heater.
I only use bottled water for drinking and cooking and for rinsing and washing fruits and vegetables and poultry and fish and even pork and red meat.
For washing fruits and vegetables, I use bottled water with bit of bleach and dish washing soap and let the fruits and veggies soak in that solution
for at least 5 minutes, rotating frequently, then rinse with bottled water and let air dry on the counter. Consider washing oranges and mangoes and
avocados even though you remove the skins/pealings to get to the fruit as those items may well come into contact with other fruits and vegetables that
you do eat without pealing. Also, you may cut up these items and the knife blade and juices may run over the skin and onto what you eat.
Always rub and rinse any and all meats well in bottled water and then wrap tightly in plastic wrap for cold storage.
Also, I have frequently gotten cuts and scrapes while working in the yard and I wash those wounds with tap water and soap, and then alcohol.
Six years, no problems, no Montezumas revenge.
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SFandH
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"How safe is tap water for cleaning and cooking?"
Depends upon how close the well is to the septic tank.
Don't know if it's true, but I've always thought that the water systems tend to mix a bit in Baja towns when it rains hard. One time I got really sick
about one hour after taking a shower in an old Baja motel, a rainstorm had moved through the previous day.
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EnsenadaDr
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You know, I notice how after the water is turned off for "maintenance reasons" down here, the water coming out of the tap is dirty...no way would I
ever take a swig from the tap unless I had a filter system installed...don't know if the filter takes out chlorine or other minerals, either. | Quote: | Originally posted by SFandH
"How safe is tap water for cleaning and cooking?"
Depends upon how close the well is to the septic tank.
Don't know if it's true, but I've always thought that the water systems tend to mix a bit in Baja towns when it rains hard. One time I got really sick
about one hour after taking a shower in an old Baja motel, a rainstorm had moved through the previous day. |
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capitolkat
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To answer Mitch Man's question. We don't live too far from you and are on municipal water. We drink it , bath in it, wash dishes and veggies in it-
for about 2 years now. No problems. We do have a RO filter for two outlets to the icemakers, and a tap on the sink that is RO and a whole house filter
for particulates. But most of the time we use the tap water for every day usage. it's hard and I have to add a lot of acid to the pool to adjust the
Ph as it has an automatic filler.
Life is too short to drink bad wine
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vandenberg
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Yes, biggest trouble with the tap water is, it has so many minerals in it, that it makes you gain weight.
At least that's what I have Barb believe. 
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chinolbz
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A friend of mine in Los Barriles uses a well water test kit a couple of time a season. It checks out as good as the water in the states. Wife still
likes local bottled water for ice and drinking. I just use the tap. Chino
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EnsenadaDr
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The Mexicans don't drink their own tap water...does that mean anything or is it purely based on tradition...
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chuckie
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Sorta funny..The other nite, not quite awake I drank a full glass of water from the tap...Tasted awful! Usually use the bottled stuff...BUT I make
coffee and cook with the city water....
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watizname
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Yes, biggest trouble with the tap water is, it has so many minerals in it, that it makes you gain weight.
At least that's what I have Barb believe. |
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. I have been wondering why I have been gaining all those extra pounds for years.
Again, Mil Gracias.
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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neilm81301
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Doc;
A charcoal filter will take out chlorine; it's what we use after bleaching tap water.
Neil
| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
You know, I notice how after the water is turned off for "maintenance reasons" down here, the water coming out of the tap is dirty...no way would I
ever take a swig from the tap unless I had a filter system installed...don't know if the filter takes out chlorine or other minerals, either. | Quote: | | Originally posted by |
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Osprey
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Water outages and hurricanes are not my drinking water problems. It's when my wife is sick and doesn't feel like cooking. That's when I put my
talented dog Storm to work cooking our meals for few days till she gets better. Twice I caught him using water from the toilet and once from the
fountain.
No accounting for taste.
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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If there are mines nearby or any history of them I try and keep in mind that metal, arsenic, lead, antimony, mercury, is another factor that cannot be
boiled or dosed away.
The RO filters I see in most agua purificada plants are not nearly as fine as membranes found on sea water filtration plants (like on yachts). Before
I get carried away thinking I am drinking "near distilled water" I'll fill a glass and let it evaporate. If it leaves a film on the glass it isn't
extremely low in total dissolved solids.
Ultraviolet light only kills a certain percentage of bacteria but all virus. But UV does not kill single cell amoebae or protozoa - filters are the
only mechanism that will keep single cell life out of the supply.
OZONE sterilization when done right, is absolute. It is possible to store ozone treated water for a year with no danger of bacterial, fungal, or viral
growth.
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bajaguy
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