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[jenny]

If you live in Tenerife, do you drink your tap water?

What are the rules here? Are there certain areas where you can drink it? Or is it just your choice? I have heard of expensive filter systems that some people use as even bottled water is said not to be great (or so the filter companies say!).

A friend of mine in Arico drinks her tap water.

Any thoughts on this Bard? Do you drink your tap water?
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[apollo]

Iv never drunk it straight from the tap, but dont mind making tea/coffee with it, or cooking using it.
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[jenny]

If the water is boiled does this kill all bad things in it?
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[apollo]

Yes, so thats why it doesnt bother me to use it when it has been.
I have heard some people who have tried tea/coffee with tap water and say they hate it because it tastes different. I dont notice it personally so whether its just a psychological thing or very very sensitive pallet....who knows
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[rob]

Boiling the water will kill germs but it won't take away the aluminium fluoride and chlorine poisons that are added.
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[Helena and Shiel]

Jenny, do you not ever drink the tap water, even for making tea?
And Rob, if there are poisons added then is it safe for brushing your teeth.....or even washing your dishes in?
How expensive is the bottled water?

H x

[rob]

The 8 litre water bottles usually cost about 90 cents so just over 11 cents a litre. One of these days I will get round to fitting a 'reverse osmosis' water filter into my kitchen.

I don't use it for cooking or drinking at all, I do use it to rinse my mouth for teeth cleaning and dish/clothes washing.
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[margaretbl]

when we are over on holiday we only use tap water for washing dishes, bathing and teeth, and bottled for tea/coffee and drinking
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[strippersrus]

I use it for cooking, cleaning, bathing ans washing my teeth and the kids...

I also use it for tea sometimes....Neil hates it ...he says it tastes different but I think it is in his head like apollo says lol...


I have heard form people that live higher up the mountain that the drink it from the tap and it is fine...also some people take their 8 litre bottles and go up the mountain and fill them!!!
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[rob]

When I lived in the mountains and had my water straight from the mountain with no 'government' interference I used to drink it without any problem. Down here and on Amarilla golf... no way would I drink the water there.

http://www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm

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[Chris_and_Leanne]

We never did, fuente alta? all the way !! Although I think it is a pallet thing as some of the bottled water tasted minging ! Although I will never forget the elation of returning to the UK (Burnley) and the water tastes so good out of the tap... in Manchester it tasted minging out of the tap!

Personal tastes I suppose... Lea x
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[margaretbl]

Is it not a thing in the UK with hard and soft water, it is what you are used to, we always prefer the water from our own tap compaired to anywhere else in the UK.
I buy small .5 litre bottles of water at home it is easier for the kids through the night when they ask for a drink, no wet bedding
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[sunny]

We use bottled water for drinking of which I drinks LOADS, but for everything else we use the tap water, ie cooking, tea and coffee etc. Although I only have one cup of a coffee a day.

Now this is going to sound really odd, but last year I had kidney infections that was eventually cleared by three courses of anti biotics. We now have purchased a brita water filter jug with replaceable cartrdridges that you change monthly and we put our bottled water into this, so doing a bit of a double cleansing. Since then I have had no kidney infection etc etc. Maybe I just have a bit of a sensitive system.

[jenny]

So is the water up the mountain still not tampered with by the government? And if only in some areas, how do you find out where? And if we find out where, will there be a huge queue of Sun4Free users queuing up with their empty 8l water bottles to fill them there??!!!!
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[bardofely]

Apologies for only just seeing this one but basically I agree with all that Rob has said. I don't even like showering in the stuff but have no way round that! And yes, it is possible to absorb poisons in the water through the skin! I am also concerned with all that tap water that is used to water plants used for food here - the fluoride goes into the ground and into the plants I would presume!

I don't know how long the mass-fluoridisation has been going on here but I do remember when I first came to Tenerife in 2002 I was impressed to find products in shops that were not contaminated with toxic additives like aspartame and msg in foods and fluoride in every brand of toothpaste. Those days have gone and the situation has got as bad as the UK and elsewhere now, in some places worse because you either buy the brand names on sale or go without!

My advice is to try and get as little as possible of toxins from foods and drink in you but it's not easy and takes some shopping around if you can find the time.

I use bottled water having no better alternative where I am. I remember the days when water didn't have all the crap in it that it does now and bottled water didn't exist!
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