How do you make sure, your drinking water is safe?

As per medical advice boiling is the best option to get a cleaning drinking water. However, it is not always possible to boil the water. Therefore, we have got a water filter installed at our home to get pure and clean drinking water. The water supplied by the municipal authorities remains contaminated and it is not safe to take it without filtering it. Whenever we go outside, we take our filtered water in a bottle along with us, kids also do the same while going to their school. We prefer not to take water from an unknown source or where we find that it may not be pure, else we buy a bottle of packed water bottle. Good post!

I prefer purified water because it is easy here in the U.S. to just attach a water filter to your tap and just get purified water in an instant. Whenever I come to India, I prefer to buy purified water in a big can because I have seen that boiled water gets a murky smell after 2 days and I don't like to drink smelly water .

I don't drink directly from tap.Either we boil it or I buy the distilled can water,I don't trust even the purifiers.Also,I live in an apartment,and they clean the tank only once in a month,so I never use that water.I know it is not good,better to spend a little and stay healthy.Keep posting!

My mom buy purified water in a well know water supplier here

Here in Canada we can bring a sample of our water to a local health unit and they will test it for free. They actually recommend testing every few months and provide the sample bottle also.

Yes Sree its true,drinking purified water always helps to reduces diseases to a great extent.....The best way to drink water is to boil it and then cool it before drinking.But since I have started using borewell,these days,I take additional precautions.The boiled and cooled water is poured into a filter before drinking.....And mind you,there is less illness in the family ,and more of good health.Also when travelling we use bottled mineral water.And this is the secret of my good health...pssssssssttttt.......

Hi Sreekala, I agree water safety is very important and in many places water must be boiled before using. I do filter water my drinking water but I believe we have a very safe water supply where I live, so I do not boil it unless advised to do so. Blessings.

Simple. I am not drinking water which directly came out of a faucet. We are drinking distilled water and we are buying it from water distributor here in our area. Before, we are all used to drinking water from a faucet and then we noticed we all got gastroenteritis. The doctor suggested that we changed our water supply so we did it and we all feel lot better now. If I am dining outside, I prefer to buy drinks in bottle than go for a free drink.

We are buying bottled mineral water for our drinks. I don't find the water in the faucet safety and the taste I hate because it is chlorinated. Heating them deprived us of the natural taste as well so I prefer mineral water. The Watson mineral water is expensive but I find the taste good.

Well, the first thing my parents did to make sure our water is potable is to have it tested. Before we had some basic filtration systems in our house, and after filtering we would boil the water. But since my uncle put up his own water purification business, we just decided to get our drinking water from there since it is more convenient for us.

Here in Indonesia most of them (specially at village) having their own water source. You just dig the land for about 10 meter than the pure water come out. But now after capitalism go to every where the big company such as Danone suck all water on earth :(. I hate this they dont care about how to keep enviroment safe they only think about money, big fish etc. I hope the USA monetary crisis now wake up all people who make capitalism as a GOD. Capitalism = racist

we know the 60% of body is of water and water is essential for evey living beings, so i believe on technology which says water is good or bad and some recommends good water purifier and so i too uses that with belief of technology that its good as i dont know about technology i go with experts

getting safe drinking water is very important and i think water purifier is the best thing to get safe drinking water and if possible add some helogene tablets in to it

We buy purified water.., We only buy drinking water to trusted water refilling stations. But, if you're still not satisfied and sure of your drinking water then boil it.,, Stay safe., Happy posting!

I think boiling the water makes it so safer than by any other methods.If there is something wrong with our water purifying system,then there is always a risk in that.

Our freezer has a ice maker with a part that the water comes out of. It has a filter on it so I guess it is kind of like a water purifier. I usually drink the water out of there. Occasionally I will buy bottled water but I don't do that very often. I usually drink it out of the freezer water maker thing. I remember not to long ago the ice maker wasn't working on it and neither was the water, that was more of a hassle than I thought it was going to be. I couldn't keep enough ice for everyone.