Which water do you use for cooking?
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Why would you think the embassies would test the water and publish it?
I mean it's one thing for them to publish a survey of the best fast-food but be fair. They don't have the time to do consumer surveys on everything.
If I can find the Russian Embassy puff to the best cabbages will post it.
I mean it's one thing for them to publish a survey of the best fast-food but be fair. They don't have the time to do consumer surveys on everything.
If I can find the Russian Embassy puff to the best cabbages will post it.
Water testing is the job of the water authorityJust Robbed wrote:Why would you think the embassies would test the water and publish it?
I mean it's one thing for them to publish a survey of the best fast-food but be fair. They don't have the time to do consumer surveys on everything.
If I can find the Russian Embassy puff to the best cabbages will post it.
In recognition of its world class performance in water supply and self-sufficiency,the Cambodian Phnom Penh water Supply Authority (PPWSA) under the leadership of General Director Ek Sonn Chan has been named the winner of the Stockholm Indus-try Water Award 2010 http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTC ... e-2010.pdf
The Phsar Chub Plant is one of 11 water plants around Cambodia sponsored by the Provincial and Peri-Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project, which is supported financially by the World Bank. The PPUWSSP has provided 90 percent of the total cost of Phsar Chub Plant, with the remaining 10 percent invested by Sakor Cambodia Co., Ltd, which runs the day-to-day operation.
To ensure the quality of water, Mr. Yeurt (Acting Director of the Phsar Chub Water Treatment Plant) said, the company sent samples for laboratory testing every month during the first year of operation, and since then continues to have the water tested every quarter.http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/featur ... ves-health
Water supply and Sanitation in Cambodia - Service delivery assessment May 2015
https://www.wsp.org/sites/wsp.org/files ... Future.pdf
Because drinking water is a health concern to foreign people living or visiting this country. Most major democratic countries have information online which is of use to their citizens here concerning crime, political events etc. That is one of the functions of an embassy.Just Robbed wrote:Why would you think the embassies would test the water and publish it?
I mean it's one thing for them to publish a survey of the best fast-food but be fair. They don't have the time to do consumer surveys on everything.
If I can find the Russian Embassy puff to the best cabbages will post it.
If you check the US Embassy in Beijing site you will see they monitor and publish the air quality. They have their own equipment to monitor this. Because it is a safety concern for Americans in Beijing. So I do not think it is unreasonable to have some embassies here at least comment on the water, periodically testing. I do not know what country you are from but I pay the salaries of these embassy employees so I expect some service.
JJones wrote:Because drinking water is a health concern to foreign people living or visiting this country. Most major democratic countries have information online which is of use to their citizens here concerning crime, political events etc. That is one of the functions of an embassy.Just Robbed wrote:Why would you think the embassies would test the water and publish it?
I mean it's one thing for them to publish a survey of the best fast-food but be fair. They don't have the time to do consumer surveys on everything.
If I can find the Russian Embassy puff to the best cabbages will post it.
If you check the US Embassy in Beijing site you will see they monitor and publish the air quality. They have their own equipment to monitor this. Because it is a safety concern for Americans in Beijing. So I do not think it is unreasonable to have some embassies here at least comment on the water, periodically testing.
I do not know what country you are from but I pay the salaries of these embassy employees so I expect some service.
Forget about which country, I think you're living on a different planet if you expect your embassy is there to look after you.
You are bang on. I am a retired government so I know the situation. It does piss me off. Getting back to the original issue. It would be nice if the embassy commented on this but I have no great expectations. Bascially we are on our own here.
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Don't worry dude, the embassy are onto this and have sent a huge task-force out in armored vehicles to take control of the situation. If the whole scenario gets too out-of-control you should just navigate yourself to the nearest central reservation with a stars & stripes flag taped to your head. The choppers will be by to pick you up in no time. We have your ass covered.It would be nice if the embassy commented on this but I have no great expectations. Bascially we are on our own here.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I'm sure the tap water is perfectly safe to drink, but why the fuck would you? It stinks of chlorine.
How much are those big blue containers anyway - I don't even know they are so cheap - a dollar?
As for cooking, you could use ditch water as long as it boils for a while.
I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water. I don't even drink it unfiltered in Edinburgh or London cos it tastes like a swimming pool.
In the Highlands, now that's quite a different matter. It tastes magnificent straight from the river, sometimes the colour of Coca Cola it's so full of peat.
How much are those big blue containers anyway - I don't even know they are so cheap - a dollar?
As for cooking, you could use ditch water as long as it boils for a while.
I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water. I don't even drink it unfiltered in Edinburgh or London cos it tastes like a swimming pool.
In the Highlands, now that's quite a different matter. It tastes magnificent straight from the river, sometimes the colour of Coca Cola it's so full of peat.
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JJones wrote:You would think the embassies here would test the water and publish this but I could not find this.
I hear they do extensive testing on champagne and high=quality liquors.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
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Do you know many Khmer people?RobW wrote:I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water.
I know loads who drink tap water. Some filter it, some don't. These aren't well off people but they certainly aren't poor.
I drink filtered tap water & have done for many years.
Not very many well enough to go to their houses, but some for more than two decades.Khmerhamster wrote:Do you know many Khmer people?.RobW wrote:I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water.
Edit: how do you filter it anyway? Sounds like a lot of effort when a phone call brings you a big blue flagon.
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I live on the 4th floor - no lift.RobW wrote:Not very many well enough to go to their houses, but some for more than two decades.Khmerhamster wrote:Do you know many Khmer people?.RobW wrote:I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water.
Edit: how do you filter it anyway? Sounds like a lot of effort when a phone call brings you a big blue flagon.
You should see the despair on the gas tank delivery guy's face when i give him the good news.
They deliver the big blue water bottles to the ground floor of my apartment block. I'd have to carry it up myself or go find a kid to do it for me. I'm too lazy for that. It's fine at this time of year, but the bottles are pretty slippery in hot season.
I use a $20 ceramic drip filter from the market. I don't know if it does any good - but it improves the taste.
I've heard (don't know how true) that many water companies just run tap waters through basic filters and sell it. Maybe not true but it is believable.
It's not unusual for me to go to a friends house and they give me bottled water and drink tap water themselves.
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This. I've known and still know plenty of locals who are far from being well-off, but none of them drink water straight from the mains. They usually boil it and then cool it. Many of the capital's inhabitants come from the provinces, where the water supply can be a lot less reliable, so they take the same precautions in town. Older people who have lived in the capital all their lives will remember when the water supply was sporadic and contaminated, so they are careful too.RobW wrote:I'm sure the tap water is perfectly safe to drink, but why the fuck would you? It stinks of chlorine.
How much are those big blue containers anyway - I don't even know they are so cheap - a dollar?
As for cooking, you could use ditch water as long as it boils for a while.
I haven't heard of any Cambodian who isn't desperately poor choosing to drink tap water. I don't even drink it unfiltered in Edinburgh or London cos it tastes like a swimming pool.
In the Highlands, now that's quite a different matter. It tastes magnificent straight from the river, sometimes the colour of Coca Cola it's so full of peat.
Back home the water comes straight from reservoirs in the hills, it's treated but it tastes amazing.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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Drinking tap water has never caused me any issues at all. Water is water as long as it's cold...excluding saltwater .
Was drinking the RO bottled stuff for a while...no matter how much I drank of it I was always thirsty. Not a great deal left in it after its gone through reverse osmosis then a UV steriliser. IMHO
Was drinking the RO bottled stuff for a while...no matter how much I drank of it I was always thirsty. Not a great deal left in it after its gone through reverse osmosis then a UV steriliser. IMHO
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