water purification?

Carbon filters will not remove the pathogens. Reverse Osmosis is needed.

If you are coming here to work, reconsider your plan.

I hope so, i use it for my coffee!!!! Omg, I am just realising...... might switch to botteled for coffee....

malko said:

I hope so, i use it for my coffee!!!! Omg, I am just realising...... might switch to botteled for coffee....

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Are u kidding ? Bottled water for EVERYTHING. Teeth brushing, coffee making, washing vegs, even boiling pasta and spuds. Especially drinking water for pets. Why take a chance with tap water? Bottled here may not be perfect, but its is WAY safer than tap, and cheap. We had a tap sample analyzed by a lab a few years ago - unbelievably bad. Even my car-wash bar makes coffee with bottled water.

No one drinks tap water. Well, only those in really unfortunate financial situations.

Astucia said:

Are u kidding ? Bottled water for EVERYTHING. Teeth brushing, coffee making, washing vegs, even boiling pasta and spuds. Especially drinking water for pets. Why take a chance with tap water? Bottled here may not be perfect, but its is WAY safer than tap, and cheap. We had a tap sample analyzed by a lab a few years ago - unbelievably bad. Even my car-wash bar makes coffee with bottled water.

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I would LOVE to see those results if you kept a copy by any chance.

Tap water in Santo Domingo and any other public water source in the DR is contaminated. Don't do anything with it that you wouldn't do with raw sewage. I worked on the island for 4 years installing water purification systems in poor communities for an NPO. We always had the water tested in every community and it was always bad. In many communities it is unfit for even skin contact. Trust me on this. If you need a reliable source of large quantities of purified water you need a quality redundant system that is regularly & professionally maintained if you don't want to make yourself and others sick. Take a look at my old blog if you want more details, here's a page... Herb and Beth: 10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004

malko said:

I hope so, i use it for my coffee!!!! Omg, I am just realising...... might switch to botteled for coffee....

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You shouldn't use tap water for coffee! I do use it for cooking, but only for stuff that's going to be boiling for a long time.

I also use my Hydrogen peroxide 35% for that.

herbnallison said:

Tap water in Santo Domingo and any other public water source in the DR is contaminated. Don't do anything with it that you wouldn't do with raw sewage. I worked on the island for 4 years installing water purification systems in poor communities for an NPO. We always had the water tested in every community and it was always bad. In many communities it is unfit for even skin contact. Trust me on this. If you need a reliable source of large quantities of purified water you need a quality redundant system that is regularly & professionally maintained if you don't want to make yourself and others sick. Take a look at my old blog if you want more details, here's a page... Herb and Beth: 10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004

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sayanora said:

I would LOVE to see those results if you kept a copy by any chance.

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At the request of:
It shows:
# It shows: # 1
Report corresponding to: February 14, 2008

TREATED ANALISIS MICROBIOLOGY OF WATER

Total Count TVC 4.4 x 102 UFC / Ml
Coliformes Total 9.2 N. M. P. / 100 Ml
Coliformes Fecales 5.1 N. M. P. / 100 Ml
Presence of Pseudomonas Absent

Classification: No apt for the human use, according to the norms of quality of the water.

ACCEPTED PARAMETROS


Composed Accepted Value
Total Count TVC <2.0 x 102 UFC / Ml
Coliformes Total <2.2 N. M. P. / 100 Ml
Coliformes Fecales <2.2 N. M. P. / 100 Ml
Pseudomonas Absents

If you're near the sea and the rain mostly comes from sea, make your roof a water catch, chloro the cistern occasionally, and run through first a sediment filter, then a carbon filter.

Non-peelable veggies can be washed with white vinegar or lime juice and water as well as chloro.

DRDYL said:

I guess i have a sensitive stomach because it seems like i get sick and i dont even drink the water. Brush my teeth yes but everything else in the home is always with Planeta Azul or whatever that purified water is.

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first, let me address this. i assume your GF is not very rich so there are good chances she has no inversor and if she does, her fridge is not connected (if she has a fridge). that alone can cause lots of heath issues as the food is stored in incorrect temperature. dominicans are pretty much immune to the stuff and so are most of long term residents but newly arrived often go through lengthy period of stomach issues, parasites and so on. in addition to this the poorer the community the worse hygiene level. the food is contaminated, especially comida de calle and improperly stored produce purchased form a colmado.

question of the water... not only it depends on your location, as i hear that some communities in the mountains have fairly clean water, but it also depends on your private setup. again, the poorer community the worse water setup, with badly constructed cisterns, old and dirty tinacos and so on.

at our home we have a large cistern. every now and then we drop a pill of cloro inside. still, this is not suitable for drinking, i think. we use bottled water for drinking, making ice, teas, coffee machine and for bread. veggies are washed in tap water with a bit of vinegar. tap water for cooking anything else: pasta, soups, rice.

if you are thinking of opening a business that uses purified water this should not be an issue. cerveceria and rum makers use specially purified water for their product. the makers of water and ice do purification process as well, so does baldom and other food producers. it's probably only a question of money...

we use our own well water for everything except as drinking water, in 10 years no problems. we do sometimes, when we remember, use Purina to wash the salad.

A while back I contacted Clorox in the USA about how to make sure my 1000 gal. tank on the roof was sanitized for bathing. After some computations, I was told 32 oz. on a regular basis and the water should be OK. I live in Santiago. I have noticed no more itching after a shower. A small price to pay.

I throw my swiming pool chlorine tablets in cistern and in tinacoa..... dont know if it helps but.......

Hahahahaha!! Well if u think about it , it does help a minimum cos my water flows through the tinacoa anyway to fill the pool ( which is often).....
Ok, not much......
But I have noticed that it killed off der fish......:laugh: