Which is safer, boiled water or bottled?

Question

Hi,

I often have to travel in diffreent countries. In some countries, the quality of water is quite suspicious. So is it safer to drink the boiled running water from hotel, or to buy bottled water?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Boiled Water, better yet, boil your bottled water. Because in some countries people have been known to take old bottle water bottles and refill them with just plain tap water. Always check to see if the seal has been broken and try not to buy from random street vendors.

Answer 2

Boiled water. It's a simple matter of knowing what you have because you did it yourself. IN some countries, just because it is in a bottle doesn't mean it is necessarily filtered. You always hear about suspicious practices and selling fake bottled water. Plus even around here tap water goes through more test than bottled water does. So in other countries, sure they may not test the tap water, but they are even less likely to have bottled water regulations and testing.

Answer 3

Boiled bottled water.

The bottling process can introduce bacteria because its a complicated mechanical process.

Merely boiling water does not remove heavy metals or poisons contained in it from the pipes, which may be lead.

Buy bottled water and boil it to be safe.

Answer 4

I would rather buy bottled water, if you are skeptical about buying their local bottled water, you can always find imported ones but of course they are pricier. I would never trust the tap water

Answer 5

spring water in the gallon bottled ozarka has bacteria my dads friend tested the 2 and and spring water is much cleaner

Answer 6

If you are willing to put forth the effort, boiled.