Yes. Many tests have shown that the amount of chlorine found in treated water is safe to drink. Chlorine is needed to maintain disinfection throughout the distribution system. The potential of water contaminations without a chlorine additive outweighs the chlorine concerns. The cloudy water is caused by tiny air bubbles in the water similar to the gas bubbles in beer and carbonated soft drinks. After a while, the bubbles rise to the top and are gone.

When chlorine is used to disinfect water supplies, systems are operated so that a small amount of free chlorine remains in the water as it travels through the system, thus ensuring that the potential for bacteria to grow in the system is very low. Your water authority business can provide information about the quality and safety of your drinking water.

Different treatment is used depending on the source of your water. Ground water taken from wells has been filtered through rocks, so it is usually quite free of particles. It can still contain chemicals and organic matter that must be taken out, though. If your water comes from a surface-water source, such as a river, some work must be done to get rid of particulate matter.

Yes. It would be extremely difficult for a bioterrorist to contaminate our drinking water supplies to cause widespread illness. Huge amounts of water are pumped daily from our reservoirs, most of which is used for industrial and other purposes. Anything deliberately put into the water supply would be greatly diluted. Poisoning water supplies would require truckloads of biological or chemical agents that are difficult to produce and relatively easy to detect.

A : Prior to chlorination, any defects that allow total coliform bacteria to enter your water distribution system should be fixed. To treat a total coliform bacteria problem with shock chlorination, you must have both an adequate amount of chlorine and an adequate amount of contact time (between the water and the chlorine) to destroy the microorganisms. If that is accomplished, then the well water should be safe for human consumption.

In most places in Ghana tap water is not safe to drink. We recommend that you purchase bottled water for your consumption, but make sure that the cap's seal is not broken! You can request that your host family boil water for you each day to consume.

The water in Nairobi, Johannesburg and Windhoek is perfectly safe. While out on safari, however, only drink the purified water provided by your lodge, or drink bottled water.

Yes. Villa del Arco will have its own water purification plant. The purified tap water flows through the faucets in all the Suites. [Top]

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No. Rock Harbor and Windigo both have potable water. Beside there, all surface lake and stream water should be considered contaminated with natural parasites. Water needs to be purified or, passed through a 0.4 micron or less water filter. It can also be boiled but, should be at a rolling boil for at least 3 minutes which requires fuel, time and doesn't taste too good. If you are going into the back country, you should bring a purifier and/or filter.

Because of water's different sources and the different ways in which water is treated, the taste and quality of drinking water varies from place to place. Over 90 percent of water systems meet EPA's standards for tap water quality. The best source of specific information about your drinking water is your water supplier. Water suppliers that serve the same people year-round are required to send their customers an annual water quality report (sometimes called a consumer confidence report).