Bottle Water Quality On Phuket

[eriksen]

We use SEAHORSE which is RO and bottled in Chalong. Costs 50 baht per 19 litre bottle delivered.

Ok, great WHERE TO BUY?? is it better than SPA?? and where to buy SPA??? Thanks all, lets get to the point..

[Seeall]

On 8/11/2009 at 6:30 PM, hackerthai said:

I am looking for the best source of water to be delieverd.

Have been getting the 12 baht water in the white plastic bottles but I am told it is just tap with chlorine. It tastes horrible.

I have recently seen a truck in Rawai Chalong called SPA Reverse Osmosis water. 32 Baht, it this is the best quality?

Does anyone have any more input on other water companies in the Rawai area. if so can you list telephone numbers?

Thank you

An interesting topic indeed. Water is the essence of our bodies and our planet.

 

Okay, I add what I've seen. My neighbor into many things, and he spent a lot, a lot of money getting the formula for his super drink, cure cancer, do this, that blah, blah, blah. However, his. Dr. And others. Analysts says that no water on the island are any good except for Nestle... But he ended up importing in his water from Bangkok.

 

 For myself. I have gone health nut. due to some conditions anyway. water is very important. I used to get the blue bottles. 30 bart compared to white bottles. 15 bart. White bottle I have seen sand in it and green fungi. Next girlfriend used to jug that. They filled it up from the tap. I don't know.

 

 The point is water is very important for your body. Why skimp on it? So I have taken to mineral water myself not. water. Mineral water. Now I have just found a company for the large blue bottles as I don't like the. 7 eleven drinking bottles anyway. What is good what tastes good who knows? Good luck all don't skip on your body or your health. SP, a yeah, I had him for years. Tried most.

[Seeall]

On 8/11/2009 at 6:30 PM, hackerthai said:

I am looking for the best source of water to be delieverd.

Have been getting the 12 baht water in the white plastic bottles but I am told it is just tap with chlorine. It tastes horrible.

I have recently seen a truck in Rawai Chalong called SPA Reverse Osmosis water. 32 Baht, it this is the best quality?

Does anyone have any more input on other water companies in the Rawai area. if so can you list telephone numbers?

Thank you

An interesting topic indeed. Water is the essence of our bodies and our planet.

 

Okay, I add what I've seen. My neighbor into many things, and he spent a lot, a lot of money getting the formula for his super drink, cure cancer, do this, that blah, blah, blah. However, his. Dr. And others. Analysts says that no water on the island are any good except for Nestle... But he ended up importing in his water from Bangkok.

 

 For myself. I have gone health nut. due to some conditions anyway. water is very important. I used to get the blue bottles. 30 bart compared to white bottles. 15 bart. White bottle I have seen sand in it and green fungi. Next girlfriend used to jug that. They filled it up from the tap. I don't know.

 

 The point is water is very important for your body. Why skimp on it? So I have taken to mineral water myself not. water. Mineral water. Now I have just found a company for the large blue bottles as I don't like the. 7 eleven drinking bottles anyway. What is good what tastes good who knows? Good luck all don't skip on your body or your health. SP, a yeah, I had him for years. Tried most.

On 11/21/2009 at 10:32 PM, phuketsub said:

I have a degree and work experience in hydrology and grew up working in a family-run business that installed water mains and hooked up homes to municipal supplies.

In my home country, the US, we generally drink the tap water.

The frequency and thoroughness of water contaminant testing for municipal supply there depends on the amount supplied. This is mandated by law. A large, metropolitan supply system will be tested daily for a wide number or contaminants, whereas a smaller municipal or county system will be tested less frequently for a smaller number of contaminants.

Here in Phuket, it is obvious that you can't drink tap water, so any discussion of the testing the municipal is moot. Where I live in Phuket Town the water is often too brown to use even to wash clothes...

In Kathu, where the largest of the island's two reservoirs is located, they use the basin for Loy Kratong floating and seem to make almost no effort to protect the catchment area from contamination. They have even pulled dead bodies out of it. Of course it is treated after the fact, but chlorine can't kill everything and has no effect whatsoever on a wide range of inorganic contaminants, most of them man-made.

I suspect the quality of water at the new Bang Neaw Dum reservoir in Tambon Srisoonthorn could be of a drinkable standard with proper treatment, but the problem is in the supply system -- and the provincial waterworks authority simply doesn't think along these lines.

Even the water produced from the desal plant in Karon at great cost (monthly electricity costs in the millions of baht at the outset) is simply mixed in with the low-quality tin mine water.

I don't know why they don't make it available to consumers as the point of production at a low cost. It could be the one saving grace of a project that is a complete failure in every other respect.

As far as the commercially available drinking water goes, I generally choose buy the big 10-liter jugs and use it for most purposes.

Never underestimate your own abilities to detect impurities in water: the human nose can sniff out less 1 part per million of hydrocarbons (a carcinogen) in water, and many other contaminants as well. If it doesn't taste right, don't drink it.

As for RO water, it is not really what we were designed to drink -- nor do I think it tastes very good, regardless of previous posts have written. 'Purity' (ie just H2O molecules) is not all it is cracked up to be when it comes to drinking water. Try a sip of pH neutral distilled water. It tastes wrong, because it is wrong.

The best tasting water will be slightly acidic, containing a variety of minerals.

Although it is not scientifically based, my recommendation would be to limit as much as possible ingesting any water from municipal supply (eg. don't even brush your teeth with it) and using a standard brand of commercially-available water (eg. Nestle's, Minere, etc) that you enjoy the taste of, if you can afford it.

Better yet, just drink beer!

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Thank you for your considerable efforts.

[Andre0720]

On 8/12/2009 at 3:46 AM, hackerthai said:

Here is what I found I SPA in Thalang, They say it is Reverse Osmosis, does anyone drink this water and have input?

I want to reduce plastic use so prefer not to use individual bottles.

Thank you.

S.P.A. is a large factory which has been established over 8 years, controlled and managed with the standard of GMP. (Good Manufacturing Practices) as well as HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point).

S.P.A drinking water, produced by good natural water resources uses Reverse Osmosis Filter System and is pasteurized by Ozonation System which are globally acceptable.

S.P.A. Co., Ltd produces and distributes S.P.A. drinking water including efficiently produces drinking water under your name and logo.

Certificates

 

• GMP from Food and Drug Administration, Ministry of Public Health
• 5 star OTOP of the Year 2004 from One Tambol One Product Program

Acceptable by the evaluation of the Program of Production standard system management

 

• GMP, HACCP from National Food Institutes
• GNP, HACCP, HALLAL from the Institute of Thai Science and Technology Research

Every drop of S.P.A. drinking water is quality.

 

S.P.A. clear 18 liter bottles is the best water I could find in Phuket.

As I am always skeptical of the products in Thailand, as responsibility is not a big concern here, what I have seen in markets, and so on...

 

So I made a makeshift test of bottled water, short of going through looking for a laboratory to analyze the water.

 

So this test consisted merely of obtaining a sample of water used by my neighbors, and the water that I was using, and water collected from various sources. I did test large 18 liter water bottles, white and clear ones.

Then I would put a cup or so of water in my kitchen blender, and I would run the blender for about 10 seconds.

Surprising results as they were.

I will attach a few pictures of the blender jar, which shows residue on the sides, with various concentrations, for all the water tested, except for water from two sources:

S.P.A. and Nestle commercial bottled water available in most stores. I would think that some other bottled water would also show good results.

But I also tested bottled water from Bangkok hospital, these bottles offered free to people visiting the hospital. Results not very good. I even showed to a doctor the pictures that I will share here, suggesting that it might be good for the hospital to analyze this water in some laboratory. I do not know if they cared...

 

The inside of the blender jar is covered with a residue, is it plastic, one would wonder at first.... With S.P.A. water, the blender jar remains clear after blending.

So S.P.A., yes.....

 

 

 

[Old Croc]

It appears Seeall didn't notice that the topic and post to which she was referring are over 14 years old. Nevertheless, the topic is always of importance.

 

Very few drink tap water anywhere in Asia, this despite Phuket water authorities stating it has been purified and is safe.  Thailand water generally is reputed to have a high, but within limits, lead content. Water in Thailand is largely sourced from rivers and is stored in the 1000+ dams around the country.

Thais generally use the white bottle water for washing or cooking, although many do drink it. It's most likely filled from the tap.

Drinking water comes in sealed blue bottles of many sizes and can be bought in any retail outlet. It is safe even for finicky tourists.

In Phuket I had 19-liter blue, bottles delivered to my door by the company, H2O.  The quality was always excellent.

[stevenl]

"Thais generally use the white bottle water for washing or cooking, although many do drink it. It's most likely filled from the tap."

On Phuket it is not filled from the tap.

[Old Croc]

1 hour ago, stevenl said:

"Thais generally use the white bottle water for washing or cooking, although many do drink it. It's most likely filled from the tap."

On Phuket it is not filled from the tap.

I'm sure a few in small shops are refilled that way,

However, I defer to your greater knowledge and experience on all things Phuket.

It would be helpful if you were to expand by indicating from where this water is sourced.

[LivinginKata]

2 hours ago, Old Croc said:

I'm sure a few in small shops are refilled that way,

However, I defer to your greater knowledge and experience on all things Phuket.

It would be helpful if you were to expand by indicating from where this water is sourced.

 

Depend on the source of the water. Many do not have piped in water which is usually treated. A deep bore well will give good water and I have drank the water from our deep well. Most common are ground wells 10 or 15 meters deep and i would not drink that as much chance of ground contamination. This type of water would required extensive treatment before being fit for drinking. 

Edited May 12 by LivinginKata
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[stevenl]

4 hours ago, Old Croc said:

I'm sure a few in small shops are refilled that way,

However, I defer to your greater knowledge and experience on all things Phuket.

It would be helpful if you were to expand by indicating from where this water is sourced.

Afaik deep bore, same water as the clear blue bottles.

[Old Croc]

11 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

 

Depend on the source of the water. Many do not have piped in water which is usually treated. A deep bore well will give good water and I have drank the water from our deep well. Most common are ground wells 10 or 15 meters deep and i would not drink that as much chance of ground contamination. This type of water would required extensive treatment before being fit for drinking. 

The house I still own on Phuket, gets its water from a well about 13-15 meters deep. The scheme water isn't available. I always showered and brushed my teeth with the well water, but never drank it (deliberately). I too always considered the septic's to be too close to these wells. Deep bore water may have heavy metals and should be tested. 

 

9 hours ago, stevenl said:

Afaik deep bore, same water as the clear blue bottles.

I would think without the same extensive filtering and osmosis processing. Hence the price difference.

Edited May 12 by Old Croc