drinking water Koh Tao - avoiding throwaway bottles

[Ineyllia]

Hey guys!

Thanks for adding me to the forum

I was wondering where the local people on Koh Tao get their drinking water from. I'm gonna spend a few month on this beautiful island so I'm looking for an ecofriendly solution to get drinking water.

I stayed on Tao before for a few weeks and always bought those 10 litre jerry cans of mineral water, but this is still a lot of plastic waste.

Any information about the waste management would be also great, as I'd like to help keeping/making the island clean.

Thank you very much and sorry if there is already a similar post on this forum!

[donnybay]

Boil the tap water, its fine.

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[samuijimmy]

Unhelpful remarks removed from above two posts ^

Water in 20 litre bottles should be available on KT the same as it is on other islands...

Pay 100 baht deposit for the bottle, and usually around 15 baht to fill and refill...

Just ask where you are staying, they should be able to tell you who the supplier is.

[khunPer]

Plastic containers and alu-cans (beer/soda), and also glass, are recycled in Thailand. Place them in a separate bag – preferably transparent, so content is visible – and place it next to the garbage; It will disappear in no time, as it's worth money for recycling. (I have to take good care of mine and not put them out before the garbage collector come, as I wish the kind collector to benefit from the profit.)

Otherwise, for drinking water, Jimmy's advise above is the correct solution. You can keep a few water plastic bottles – or buy a glass jar – to tap water into and place in the fridge; that how locals and expats do...

[dotpoom]

I don't consider empty plastic bottles "litter"....many a fine person gather them up to sell for money and support their family.

[SEEDGER]

When I travel outside the US I carry with me a Berkey water filter system. I use the Berkey light system. It comes with everything you need to get going.

Here is a link to there sight. I also attach the fluoride system.

http://www.berkeyfilters.com/