Is there any way to drink Mexican tap water and not get ill? I am moving to Mexico.?
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Is there any quick way to get used to Mexican tap water? Like a system or even just a vaccine (preferably oral)? I am moving to Mexico for a while and wish to live as a native.
The reason why it’s not recommendable to drink the tap water in Mexico, it’s that even it potable (this means, has been cleared, filtered and in some place chlorinated) it’s not meant to be drinking water.
This is part of a culture in Mexico, people want clean treated water, but they don’t expect to drink it, so it’s only treated to a certain point.
There are areas where water comes from wells, and even the flavor it’s different and you are OK to drink it after you add a few drops of germicide.
In the large cities it’s never recommendable because chancer are you have treated water in your faucets, take in consideration that are cities as old as 500 yrs in Mexico, which pipes haven’t been changed in over 100 yrs, you do the math.
The only place where is safe to drink water from the tap it’s a hotel which usually has a leyend in the vanity mirror that reads something like this "the water of this hotel has been treated for human consumption".
Even in the US it’s not fully recommendable to drink water from the tap because it has way too many chemicals.
Bottled water is real cheap in Mexico compare to US you can get the 5 gallon bottle for less than 3 dlls delivered to your house, and there are vendors everyday in most residential areas.
October 16th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Since you didn’t grow up there, there isn’t anything you can really do to innoculate yourself. Alot mexicans don’t even drink the tap water. So you can still live as a native and not drink out of the tap. Or just boil the water you do get out of the tap.
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