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tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Is it reasonable to boil water from the taps here before drinking it? What would boiling do, if anything?

PimpofKorea · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:22 am Post subject:

sounds like a pain in the balls....just buy that lotte icis garbage.....not too expensive if you buy in bulk.

Skinny Hippy · Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Location: Pacific Northwest

waltjocketty · Joined: 09 Oct 2006

I actually learned during my WFR certification class that it is no longer believed that you need to boil water for 10 minutes to kill all the bacteria. More like just get the water to a rolling boil, and everything should be taken care of. As for heavy metals, well, I don't know about that. Do they all get absored into your body?

PimpofKorea · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

Just buy a water cooler (about 120,000) and get the water jugs delivered to your house 5,000 won each. My wife myself daughter and baby use two jugs (10,000 won total) and it lasts about 3-4 weeks.

samd · Joined: 03 Jan 2007

What's wrong with (most of) you people?

The water is fine boiled. Many Koreans drink it straight from the tap.

We assume the water in our own countries is fine to drink, but it's a lot dirtier than we can imagine.

Eg. Sydney about a decade ago. People were shocked to find ecoli and giardia in their "best tap water in the world". Everyone went into a panic. Drinking fountains were closed. A couple of weeks later it was revealed that the water had been contaminatd for years. Everybody shrugged and went back to drinking the tap water.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

lastat06513 · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:43 pm Post subject:

I had an electric water pitcher that would boil the water and stop automatically, I used to fill several liter-bottles with it, it beats having a kettle and boiling water that way.

captain kirk · Joined: 29 Jan 2003

The poster Col. Brandon, awhile back (year maybe), posted a photo of the grey/brown GUNK at the bottom of his water distiller. That gunk would be.......good for health!

Kimchi Cowboy · Joined: 17 Sep 2006

Boiled water tastes like crap, and as mentioned doesn't remove the heavy metals. (I've heard that good ol' kim is actually good for absorbing HM and removing them from the body, can anyone back that up?)

Sam Da Soo is probably the best-tasting bottled water out there, and it's cheap (1.5 L is less than 1000 won.)

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

Agreed, Sam Da Soo is pretty damn nice bottled water at a reasonable price.

Gatsby · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

A solid carbon block water filter that can be fitted on your tap will remove heavy metals, hydrocarbons, parasites, bacteria, and the miscellaneous off flavorings such as iron or sulfur.

Granulated carbon filters generally do not get rid of the parasites and bacteria reliably.

Municipal water supplies sometimes use huge carbon filters to remove petrochemicals in the ground water. The bottled water cooler stuff has almost certainly been run through a carbon filter.

Beyond that, a reverse osmosis kit under your kitchen sink will clean water equivalent to distillation.

igotthisguitar · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

Boil your tap-water?

Good God man, an absolute must!

I'm in fact hedging my bets it's even better than most "bottled" water, quite often put out onto the market, don't forget, by the same diversified mega-companies whose toxic chemical & industrial investments have poisoned vast quantities of the planet's drinking water in the 1st place.

Now how's THAT for ironic?

Gatsby · Joined: 09 Feb 2007

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