Drinking Water

[4.real]

How good is the drinking water sold in large containers ,delivered by pick-ups. ?

I use Tesco water but there is a truck that delivers to my village.

They deliver large bottle green containers for 40 baht.Is it good drinking water?

thanks all in advance for your response.4.Real.

[gotlost]

AUG I'm dying. Drink it I do. You are not in Hati.

[RabC]

Been using the 40 baht water for 9 years so far and never any problems.

[sotsira]

What i'd like to know is where does this water come from and how is it treated?

[loong]

I use water delivered to our village by pick up and never had any problems.

How large are the containers that you are talking about? We pay 12 Baht for 20 litres.

[ktamp]

We've been using the pick up service since we've been here for a year. The drinking water is as good quality as the bottled stuff you buy in the store.

[Rimmer]

Amtech reverse osmosis water delivered to my door every Friday at 1 pm off the back of a pickup truck like it has been for the last goodness knows how many years, 40 baht a container.

[anothertorres]

same here, Amtech delivers thursday mornings at 6:30am. make sure you get the one of the good Amtech delivery trucks, stay away from the bottles that look like they've been through the war. demand clean bottles. and it's reverse osmosis...

[4.real]

Amtech reverse osmosis water delivered to my door every Friday at 1 pm off the back of a pickup truck like it has been for the last goodness knows how many years, 40 baht a container.

I believe the company that delivers is called 'eye sky'.

I have seen them exchange bottles [about 5 gallons] .

My concern is how clean are the containers?

They are obviously re-used.

But thanks for your input all.4.Real

[NADTATIDA1]

Amtech reverse osmosis water delivered to my door every Friday at 1 pm off the back of a pickup truck like it has been for the last goodness knows how many years, 40 baht a container.

I believe the company that delivers is called 'eye sky'.

I have seen them exchange bottles [about 5 gallons] .

My concern is how clean are the containers?

They are obviously re-used.

But thanks for your input all.4.Real

From my local village shop the 20 litre containers are 10 baht

[ignis]

40 baht ? how many lts are in that container?

The big 20lt bottles delivered around here have just gone up to 13 baht, never used anything different since 2004, living in a Village as soon as I have use a bottle I pop it outside [have 3, to buy bottle with water is 90 baht] with the 13 baht in a small pot when the Lady passes she exchanged to a full bottle or bottles.... 2 Villages up they pay 11 baht for the 20lt bottles

So would expect 40 baht containers would be cheaper than what I pay for 20lts but if it was the same price .65 per lt the 40 baht containers would be 60 - 65+ lts...

How do they deliver? How do you get water out? must be a 2 man job?

[craigt3365]

My Amtech bottle also says it was treated by UV and ozonation. Don't know how they clean the bottles, but I would HOPE they do a good job!

Having it delivered sure beats hassling with all those smaller bottles from Tesco/Big C!

[sotsira]

40 baht ? how many lts are in that container?

The big 20lt bottles delivered around here have just gone up to 13 baht, never used anything different since 2004, living in a Village as soon as I have use a bottle I pop it outside [have 3, to buy bottle with water is 90 baht] with the 13 baht in a small pot when the Lady passes she exchanged to a full bottle or bottles.... 2 Villages up they pay 11 baht for the 20lt bottles

So would expect 40 baht containers would be cheaper than what I pay for 20lts but if it was the same price .65 per lt the 40 baht containers would be 60 - 65+ lts...

How do they deliver? How do you get water out? must be a 2 man job?

From what i understand it's 40bt for the same 20lt bottles that some company's charge.

Or thats what the delivery man charges depending which one you use.

So now everyone knows that these 20lt containers can be bought from as little as 11bt up to 40bt depending who you use.

[ignis]

WOW

Think if I was charged 40 baht would take my bottles and have them filled myself, or when going to the supermarket use the machine 1lt = 1 baht.

[craigt3365]

Well, mine are 45bt. But heck, delivered to my door, I use about one a week...not worth talking about....and I would never trust those cheap machines outside the supermarket. They may be OK, but I just don't know....I wouldn't use them when I lived in the US, much less here.

[gotlost]

Ah yes water the drink of champions.....

[4.real]

Amtech reverse osmosis water delivered to my door every Friday at 1 pm off the back of a pickup truck like it has been for the last goodness knows how many years, 40 baht a container.

I believe the company that delivers is called 'eye sky'.

I have seen them exchange bottles [about 5 gallons] .

My concern is how clean are the containers?

They are obviously re-used.

But thanks for your input all.4.Real

From my local village shop the 20 litre containers are 10 baht

Perhaps you have the white plastic containers .

They are the 10 baht ones but my ex g/f warned me that they are not very good and the containers are often dirty inside.

The 40 baht containers are a green colour [20 lits sounds about right].

Knowing Thailand I am most concerned about how they are cleaned as the bottles are exchanged.

No matter what process they use to put water in or how the water is sanitised/whatever ,if the container is not clean then the water will not be potable either.

But thanks all.4.Real.

[raro]

Ah yes water the drink of champions.....

took a while, but I spotted the water bottle... ...Jai Dee, you're the next for this riddle..

[Phil Conners]

I've used the white 10 baht bottles for years. Honestly I can't see or taste any difference between those and the 40 baht clear incremental-reverse-opposite-osmosis-with-a-double-twist and never had any problems with it.

Would be interesting to know how they make it (the white bottles). I assume it's pumped up from the ground water, then cleaned and/or filtered before bottled.

Yes with the reusable bottles you never know what people have used them for before, but that goes for them all. Better not to think about it

[wobblyjohn]

Yes with the reusable bottles you never know what people have used them for before, but that goes for them all. Better not to think about it

I used to buy the the 10 baht bottles until I smelt diesel on one of them, now I filter my own, no cheaper but it saves a trip to the shop and hassle when the shop has closed

[craigt3365]

Ah yes water the drink of champions.....

Man, I am really thirsty now...or something like that.

[raro]

I've used the white 10 baht bottles for years. Honestly I can't see or taste any difference between those and the 40 baht clear incremental-reverse-opposite-osmosis-with-a-double-twist and never had any problems with it.

yeah....but you also drink Leo....

[Phil Conners]

I've used the white 10 baht bottles for years. Honestly I can't see or taste any difference between those and the 40 baht clear incremental-reverse-opposite-osmosis-with-a-double-twist and never had any problems with it.

yeah....but you also drink Leo....

Water snob

[Trickcyclist]

we use large containers for cooking and boil it for tea.

and use the small bottles for for drinking water

have ordered a water distiller

[toptuan]

Yes with the reusable bottles you never know what people have used them for before, but that goes for them all. Better not to think about it

Does it bother you that I pee into my used bottles?**

On another tangent. A caution about the vending machines that refill your 1-litre bottles. I've heard that the internal filters are not cleaned/maintained periodically in the manner needed to insure clean water. I took note of the comment because it fits the "poor maintenance" mentality that affects most everything else in LOS (bus brakes, railroad tracks, building exteriors, sidewalks, back roads, water parks, future nuclear reactors, etc.)

**only when the toilet's broken.

[craigt3365]

I agree with your comment on the 1-liter bottle refill places...no way they are as good as what you get in the bigger, better bottles. Probably little better than tap water. I am sure they don't use RO....just a quickie filter.

[moo9]

To be honest, I would never use those refill stations. Heaven knows about filters, water quality etc.

[bellste]

Amtech reverse osmosis water delivered to my door every Friday at 1 pm off the back of a pickup truck like it has been for the last goodness knows how many years, 40 baht a container.

I have the same, but I pay 45 THB for each container? Maybe it depends on where you live? I live on 3rd Road.