[StitsVobsaith]

Those running tap waters, are they high in chlorine and industrial sendiments which requires water filtering gadgets.
Which dam in Thailand is the main water supply source to the Bangkok city perfecture and surroundings?

[Caregrasy]

Those running tap waters, are they high in chlorine and industrial sendiments which requires water filtering gadgets.
Which dam in Thailand is the main water supply source to the Bangkok city perfecture and surroundings?

all water from the filtering station leaves it clean, but might get contaminated on it's way through backflow. Still happens often in thailand, because some households are still using water pumps. That's why having a filter in the kitchen is a good idea - saves you money on bottled water.

high chlorine is not a poison or contamination - comparing to some other countries it's low in thailand (at least bangkok). It's enough to put water in the bottle or container and after a few minutes chlorine evaporates and there in no smell or taste to it.

as to water supplies to bangkok, than the major reservuar and filtering station is in nothaburi in amphoe Bang Kruai, close to the border with thawi wattana. http://www.multimap.com/maps/?zoom=1...1:17||Thailand

this reservuar comes from the rivet tha chin, which flows to samut sakhon.

[OGOGOogoloshennya]

In our village in Buriram we just fill bottles of water straight from the mains and then put them in the fridege. When we rented a place in the city earlier in the year my wife would go and collect a huge bottle of water for drinking which she had to bring to our place using a handcart.

David

[L8fGLM4d]

my friend living in Bangkok said a couple of months ago that there was lots of advertising proudly announcing that tap water in Bangkok is now safe to drink.
in Chiang Mai, most people seem to have drinking water delivered - but tap water is ok for cooking and brushing teeth.

[Accor$314]

In Chiangmai we never drank tap water. We had several giant bottles delivered to our house that where almost too heavy to carry. We used a nifty hand pump you can buy in many places. When we returned a couple of years later in 2007 we lived in a new apartment a friend of ours let us use. There was a small water filter attached to the faucet in the kitchen. We used that water instead of bottled water and it seemed fine and the brewed coffee tasted OK.

[L8fGLM4d]

bottled water is about 1 to 1.5 baht a litre. for me, it is 30 baht per 2 weeks. hardly going to sink my budget. but a filter would be convenient.

[Freeptube]

Most people are probably just used to drinking bottled water by now anyway.