1 hour ago, FolkGuitar said:

I installed an under-sink 5-stage filter from HomePro, installed it in about 20 minutes, and now have all the good-tasting water I want, cheaply (I spent 5,000 years ago to buy the unit, and about 500 baht a year replacing filter cartridges).

 

Those filter systems may work great, but I'd still gag a little if they found a dead Burmese guy in the water tank on top of my apartment building after I'd been drinking that water.

 

The only one that i can tell is different from the others is Singha and i don’t like it much. All the others taste the same to me.

 

We used to buy from Makro, the 6L bottles, then we changed to the 1.5L litres.

 

Then a Hotel near home started selling packs of the 600ml for 25 baht.

Much more convenient to buy and use.

Now these places have popped up everywhere and the prices are competitive ( 25 to 22 and now 20 baht a pack ).

Multiple unheard of brands in very similar packaging ( blue text with a mountain motif seems to be the label of choice ) all very suspect.

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

Those filter systems may work great, but I'd still gag a little if they found a dead Burmese guy in the water tank on top of my apartment building after I'd been drinking that water.

 

Me too. And that seems to happen so often these days!

However, just think of all the probiotics released into the water!

I refuse to buy bottled water because I don't want to be responsible for the consumption of all that plastic, so I buy the 20 liter bottles, have them delivered to my home and then I carry around a bottle of hard plastic or metal and bring it into restaurants, thereby saving perhaps 600 plastic bottles a year from being wasted.

 

I think in general people grossly underestimate the problem of plastic accumulation on this planet, much of it ends up in the sea, and only 12% of the plastic that gets recycled is actually reused. 

10 hours ago, Harry Tuchas said:

I see people, both locals and foreigners in Thailand, get so worked up over which brand of bottled water everyone should be drinking because it’s “the best of the bunch,” and it’s exhausting. Honestly

Where did you see that ? ,I have never seen Thai's or Farang's pushing

their view of which is the best bottled water, people just chose what they

want , me personally get water in glass bottles (important) ,delivered twice

a week , and have done for years by Glacier Water Co. Chiang Mai , 

 

The ideas some people get in their heads, they might have seen it once

and then think all  Thai's and Farangs are having snobby views on water ...

 

regards worgeordie

Nestle is rank, it should be banned.

6 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

Me too. And that seems to happen so often these days!

However, just think of all the probiotics released into the water!

 

The dead Burmese guys may get the press, but I suspect they find dead rats and squirrels all the time.  Not to mention bird poop.

 

7 baht a bottle seems like a cheap price to pay. 

 

Just for grins one time at the office, I timed myself walking down to the water cooler and pulling a cup of water to drink.  I used $2.50 of my labor to save the planet one bottle.

I can taste the difference.

 

Mount Fleur tastes the best and pretty close to Evian. Aura is second best. If you suffer from acid reflux i challenge you to drink mount flour vs that rancid Singha water

 

 

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I refuse to buy bottled water because I don't want to be responsible for the consumption of all that plastic, so I buy the 20 liter bottles, have them delivered to my home

I do the same -- I once had a friend visiting from Vermont who has an artesian spring on his property -- I gave him a glass of my delivered water as above and he said it tasted really good.

3 hours ago, Harry Tuchas said:

I just checked the Makro site. Right now you can get a pack of eight 1.5L bottles for 39 Baht, which is pretty good value. Thanks. I’ll probably go for that when I need to restock next month. 

Just east of the railway line in Pattaya (or on the railway road), water vendors are now selling 6 x 1.5L and 12 x 0.6L for 25 baht each. These outlets are all over the place, where you can just pull over and they'll put it in your car or on your scooter. I have at least 4 near where I live. 

8 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

Just east of the railway line in Pattaya (or on the railway road), water vendors are now selling 6 x 1.5L and 12 x 0.6L for 25 baht each. These outlets are all over the place, where you can just pull over and they'll put it in your car or on your scooter. I have at least 4 near where I live. 

 

I'm sure that none of these ultra cheap no name places would stoop so low as to fill their bottles with tap water !

 

 

8 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

Just east of the railway line in Pattaya (or on the railway road), water vendors are now selling 6 x 1.5L and 12 x 0.6L for 25 baht each. These outlets are all over the place, where you can just pull over and they'll put it in your car or on your scooter. I have at least 4 near where I live. 

Yeah, down to 20 baht a pack in some places.

 

Not likely to find any Evian or Mont Fleur in these places, more likely to find:

 

 

“ slightly tainted “ drinking water !!

17 minutes ago, Celsius said:

I can taste the difference.

 

Mount Fleur tastes the best and pretty close to Evian. Aura is second best. If you suffer from acid reflux i challenge you to drink mount flour vs that rancid Singha water

 

 

 

What quality establishment are you buying “ Mount Flour “ from ??

3 minutes ago, terryq said:

 

I'm sure that none of these ultra cheap no name places would stoop so low as to fill their bottles with tap water !

 

 

I was anticipating replies such as this. You're not sure of anything at all...

 

Apart from the fact that purity is impossible to determine unless it is analysed in a lab, it's good enough for me. It is clean and tasteless, as I expect my water to be, and I've been drinking cheap bottled water in Thailand for 20 years.

 

The current average price for bottled drinking water in Pattaya Central is 3 packs of 0.6L x 12 for 100 baht and 3 packs of 1.5L x 6 for 100 baht. Now competition has driven the price down to 25 baht a pack (no need to buy 4) in predominantly Thai-resident areas of the city.

 

Let's not make any more assumptions that one brand is better than another unless you can get a lab report to prove it. 

 

28 minutes ago, JensenZ said:

Just east of the railway line in Pattaya (or on the railway road), water vendors are now selling 6 x 1.5L and 12 x 0.6L for 25 baht each. These outlets are all over the place, where you can just pull over and they'll put it in your car or on your scooter. I have at least 4 near where I live. 

I remember the first time I was in a Thai supply shop that sold the 'safety-seal' bottle caps by the bag. Refill from the tap, slap on a new safety-seal cap, hit it with the heel of your hand, and Voila! A brand new sealed bottle of water to sell to the unsuspecting tourists! There's a shop on Ratchadamnoen Rd. in Chiang Mai that sells them. Probably available everywhere.

1 minute ago, FolkGuitar said:

I remember the first time I was in a Thai supply shop that sold the 'safety-seal' bottle caps by the bag. Refill from the tap, slap on a new safety-seal cap, hit it with the heel of your hand, and Voila! A brand new sealed bottle of water to sell to the unsuspecting tourists! There's a shop on Ratchadamnoen Rd. in Chiang Mai that sells them. Probably available everywhere.

Have you ever tasted water from a tap in Thailand? If you're game, you should try it.

 

At the very least, if they were filling bottles with "tap water", it would be filtered first.

 

 

Just now, JensenZ said:

Have you ever tasted water from a tap in Thailand? If you're game, you should try it.

 

At the very least, if they were filling bottles with "tap water", it would be filtered first.

 

 

 

 

I would rather have Thailand tap water than UK tap water where I can no longer take the taste of the additives.

 

Whatever is cheapest is fine.............other than that company in Pattaya caught filling their bottles from a tap.

1 minute ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

I would rather have Thailand tap water than UK tap water where I can no longer take the taste of the additives.

Well, why not just drink the bottled water? It has no taste. Some have a mineral taste, but I prefer water purified by reverse osmosis.

Just now, JensenZ said:

Well, why not just drink the bottled water? It has no taste. Some have a mineral taste, but I prefer water purified by reverse osmosis.

 

 

I do.

 

I wasn't talking about bottled water

49 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I refuse to buy bottled water because I don't want to be responsible for the consumption of all that plastic, so I buy the 20 liter bottles, have them delivered to my home and then I carry around a bottle of hard plastic or metal and bring it into restaurants, thereby saving perhaps 600 plastic bottles a year from being wasted.

 

I think in general people grossly underestimate the problem of plastic accumulation on this planet, much of it ends up in the sea, and only 12% of the plastic that gets recycled is actually reused. 

 

I used to rent a canoe at Lumpini Park.  Just to make it interesting (since fishing isn't allowed), I'd take a pail and one of those garbage grabbers and paddle around picking up litter.  The first time I did that, I got the stink eye from the ladies who do that to recycle for money.  But I became their buddy when they realized I was just going to dump it in the bins when I got back to the dock.  In fact, it never got to the bins.  I just unloaded my pail into their bags.

 

So I don't worry about using plastic water bottles in Thailand.  They're almost like currency.  There are so many Thai people that live on the ones they collect and sell.

 

Label translation:

 

"Produced from natural underground water sources.

 

It undergoes a clean manufacturing process using a reverse osmosis system and is sterilised with UV rays and ozone.

 

This results in pure water rich in minerals, so consumers can be confident they're drinking clean water.

 

It's also beneficial to the body."

 

Believe or trust anyone you like. If you don't trust it, get it analysed or visit the factory.

 

 

4 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

I do.

 

I wasn't talking about bottled water

I'm well aware of that, but why talk about tap water?

Just now, JensenZ said:

Label translation:

 

"Produced from natural underground water sources.

 

It undergoes a clean manufacturing process using a reverse osmosis system and is sterilised with UV rays and ozone.

 

This results in pure water rich in minerals, so consumers can be confident they're drinking clean water.

 

It's beneficial to the body."

 

Believe or trust anyone you like. If you don't trust it, get it analysed or visit the factory.

 

 

 

 

I know of a water systems specialist who did just that; he ran tests on bottled water in Thailand and the results were not as pure as you might hope.

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I refuse to buy bottled water because I don't want to be responsible for the consumption of all that plastic, so I buy the 20 liter bottles, have them delivered to my home and then I carry around a bottle of hard plastic or metal and bring it into restaurants, thereby saving perhaps 600 plastic bottles a year from being wasted.

 

I think in general people grossly underestimate the problem of plastic accumulation on this planet, much of it ends up in the sea, and only 12% of the plastic that gets recycled is actually reused. 

You go to a lot of trouble for nothing. All my empty water bottles, which are easily crushed by hand, and other plastic and aluminium cans are given to a lady who sells them for recycling. I don't do this to save the planet, but to help the lady get some extra income.

 

Even if you put your empty water bottles in the garbage bin, they will get collected by garbage scavengers during the day or night. I'm surprised you didn't know this.

8 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

I know of a water systems specialist who did just that; he ran tests on bottled water in Thailand and the results were not as pure as you might hope.

Which is meaningless unless we know exactly what he tested and what the results were. "Not as pure as you might hope" is quite vague.

4 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

so presumably you have filtered water at home otherwise you'd go through thousands of bottles. I wasn't referring to small bottles, more the 1.5l and 6l

I get crates of 20 x 960ml bottles delivered weekly for Bht 40 a crate.

Get free water when I fill the motor up.

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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I refuse to buy bottled water because I don't want to be responsible for the consumption of all that plastic, so I buy the 20 liter bottles, have them delivered to my home and then I carry around a bottle of hard plastic or metal and bring it into restaurants, thereby saving perhaps 600 plastic bottles a year from being wasted.

 

I think in general people grossly underestimate the problem of plastic accumulation on this planet, much of it ends up in the sea, and only 12% of the plastic that gets recycled is actually reused. 

You refuse to buy bottled water, so you buy water in 20-liter bottles. 

 

That explains a lot. 

I do not know anyone that cares much about what brand bottled water they drink.