About once a year, there is an article in the news papers, that "Public Health" has closed several "Bottled Water" companies who's bottled water was contaminated.
I also saw the bottles on a huge truck being filled with water from the "street supply" one day!
"Giardia" is endemic in the people who live in the DR.
If you live here, you probably have it too.
You get stomach cramps, and often diarrhia, for a few months when you first get here.
Then your body get accustomed to it.
I don't worry about the "WATER", it's probably all contaminate at one time or another any way.
AND, if you knew where my mouth was anyway???????????????????????????????????
Stating, "I drank some "Bad Water", and it made me sick"!!!!!!!
Is just not scientifically correct.
You may have gotten "SICK" but KNOWING how/why you got sick is just not possible.
There are a LOT of things to be concerned about here, the water is not one of them!
Use some "Cloro"in water, or "Purisima", like KEN,AND my mother-in-law do,to soak your fruits & veggies,drink bottled water, brush your teeth with bottled water if that makes you feel good, other than that, you live in a tropical 3rd. World "Paradise", there is contamination EVERYWHERE!
Or, you can be like the Colonial English, drink Gin, Beer, and "Tonic Water".
Hence, the popularity of the "Gin & Tonic", with a "Twist"!
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Time to go expose myself to some "E-Coli"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!