How To Avoid Drinking Contaminated Water During A Travel?
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The charming beach, the heaven of waves, the exciting motor boat, surfing, alluring snorkeling, and relaxing sea fishing, all of them are calling you to go out for a wonderful vacation. When you plan to go out, please don’t forget to factor in one important thing, safe drinking water, because there are no more painful things than getting sick on the trip. Today, I would like to talk about a very serious thing with you guys: How to avoid drinking contaminated water during a journey?
Know The Source of Your Water And Avoid Drinking Contaminated Water
Knowing your water source is important when you plan camping, hiking, or traveling abroad because you must know if it’s safe to use, such as drinking, cooking, teeth brushing, or something else.
Developed countries like America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and so on have modern sanitation infrastructures to ensure citizens have clean water to use. You can fill your water bottle from these countries’ dispensers, brush your teeth with their tap water, and drink their tap water directly as well without any fear of getting an illness.
However, there are many tourist destinations in developing regions, such as Mexico and the Caribbean Islands, as well as many countries in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Then we need to consider the safety of drinking water.
Resorts and upmarket hotels in some water pollutants seriously countries and regions often invest much money to improve water filtration systems for public health. Maybe it’s a good idea to inquire about the hotel or resort to know if the water in their countries can be drunk directly or not. Don’t drink water directly if you don’t know the source of the water.
How to Get Clean Water In Water Pollutants Seriously Areas, And Avoid Drinking Contaminated Water
How to get clean water from a water-contaminated region when we are on a travel. Here are some usual methods:
1. To buy a bottled water;
2. Take a water bottle with a filter;
3. Boil the water;
4. Use water purification tablets to purify water
Which Is Best For Avoiding Contaminated Water While Traveling: Bottled Water, Filter Water, Water Purification Tablets, Or Boiled water?
Bottled Water
The most popular way of getting safe drinking water is to opt for bottled water. Many sources of bottled water are the same as tap water, the sources include spring, distilled and purified, well, and surface water, but it is not regulated as tap water is, that’s why we cannot believe that bottled water is safer than tap water. If you want to buy bottled water, don’t forget to check if it’s a real one from a reliable factory.
Pros
- More safe and healthy
- More convenient. You can take it with you or use it easily during your trip
- The taste and smell of bottled water are better than tap water. It has been removed the chlorine and other chemicals would cause unpleasant smells and tastes before it is bottled and sold
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- Most bottled water is in disposable plastic bottles, as we all know, the production, transportation, and disposal of plastic bottles have a bad impact on the environment
- Bottled water is a little bit expensive for traveling people because they have to buy it one by one
- Bottle labels may confuse, or even mislead, make consumers is difficult to know the source of the water
- The production standards of each country may different
Filter Water
If you go camping, hiking, or visit a rural region(even in a developed country), it may be difficult to obtain bottled water or modern sanitation lines. Then the portable travel water bottle with the filter will play an important role in your journey. The water filtration system is a method to purify water to get clean and safe water. The travel water bottle with filter has 0.1 to 0.2 microns pores to remove contaminants and protozoa and bacteria from the raw water, for safe water drinking.
Pros
- Healthy and safe: 0.1-micron filter aperture can remove over 99.9999% of harmful substances, and 220 kinds of water pollution.
- No smell: 4 – stage filtration system of coconut shell charcoal package adsorption of chloride in water, improves the taste of water
- Environmental friendly: a filter straw has a 1500 ml (396 ounces) filtering capacity, the equivalent of 1500 bottled water (500 ml)
- Sustainable and recycling
- High portability: super lightweight and slim body is very suitable to carry
- Easy to get safe drinking water: it can filter water anywhere
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- The filter needs to be replaced every 6 months（most filter system is suggested for 6 months, please do it according to the specific instructions).
Water Purification Tablets
If boiling water is not possible, you can use water purification tablets or UV lamps to purify water as well. There are some travel-friendly products (small amounts of iodine or chlorine) that are easy to chemically disinfect water. Uv sterilization is another choice for travelers to get clean and safe water quickly and easily abroad or in a remote destination.
Pros
- Water purification tablets can kill most harmful or disease-causing viruses and bacteria
- Water purification tablets are lightweight and convenient to carry
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- Pregnant women and people with thyroid problems cannot use
- Bad taste
- It costs much more time than other ways
- The effect of killing the first of the cryptosporidium giardia and drug-resistant organisms is not so good
Boiled Water
- Easy, effective, and safe
- Need an electric power or fire
- Boiling water cannot remove the chlorine
Can You Fly With A Reusable Water Bottle
Yes, the water bottle can be used on the plane. The food-grade and BPA-free heavy-duty ABS, and the reverse osmosis design of the bottle let you not worried about water jet or bottle deformation at high altitude pressure. The filter cartridge can last up to six months, and the 650ML water bottle is sturdy and durable for daily use.
Best Travel Water Bottle With Filter For International Travel
The travel water bottle with filter is lightweight (less than 10 ounces) and easy to carry (hiking buckles), and its effective filtration ability (which can remove 99.9999% of harmful substances) allows you to have safe drinking water at any time.
It is the best choice for you to get a water filter for the following reasons:
- Taking it with you on your travel road can solve your drinking problems, such as going outdoors, camping, and traveling.
- Meet a natural disaster, it can be used as an emergency kit
- The public water may be contaminated, use it to have safe drinking water.
- The bottle can be also used as a common bottle(replace the filter with the supplementary tube) when you go to a gym or do some sports excise.
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