Drinking water Q&A

[ Travel ] When traveling to an unfamiliar country, is their bottled water reliable?

[ Travel ] What should I do if I drank the 2 small bottles of mineral water provided by the hotel?

[ Travel ] Should I use the hotel kettle to boil water?

[ Camping ] Does the spring water in the camping area need to be filtered?

[ Mountaineering ] Should I bring so much drinking water when climbing? What should I do if I don’t have enough drinking water?

[ River tracing ] There was water everywhere during the tracing activity. Do I still need to bring so much drinking water?

[ School ] My child thinks it is too heavy to bring drink water from home, what should I do?

[ School ] I drank the water I brought home, is the water in the school drinking fountain reliable?

[ School ] My child has finished playing at school, and there is no water in the drinking fountain, so what should I do to quench his thirst?

[ Home ] Can the water in our water purifier be drunk raw?

[ Home ] Can our water ionizer be drunk raw?

[ Home ] The water from the water purifier will have white scale after being boiled, what should I do?

Ans 1. [Travel]
When traveling to an unfamiliar country, is their bottled water reliable?

When we arrive in an unfamiliar country, we don't know the quality of their local bottled water, so we can only choose bottled water brands that we know and are reliable.
If you have no choice, it is recommended to carry the pocket filter with you. Put the filter on the mouth of the PET bottle to easily filter out bacteria and other impurities in the water. Avoid drinking water in unfamiliar countries to cause physical discomfort.

Ans 2. [Travel]
What should I do if I drank the 2 small bottles of mineral water provided by the hotel?

Usually the restaurant will only provide 2 small bottles of bottled water. What if I have finished drinking without buying mineral water from outside in advance?
At this time, you can use the finished PET bottle to take the hotel's tap water, and then filter it through the pocket for drinking.

Ans 3. [Travel]
Should I use the hotel kettle to boil water?

According to the information of many foreign restaurant visits, it is not recommended to use the hotel kettle to boil water for drinking.
So if you want to drink boiled water, it is recommended to drink mineral water or tap water filtered through a pocket filter.

Ans 4. [Camping]
Does the spring water in the camping area need to be filtered?

Many camping areas provide water from mountain springs, and the water is likely to contain bacteria and parasites.
It is recommended that unless it has been boiled, it can be filtered by a pocket filter and stored in a bucket as a simple water purifier to provide everyone with drinking water.

Ans 5. [Mountaineering]
Should I bring so much drinking water when climbing? What should I do if I don’t have enough drinking water?

Of course, you must bring the necessary drinking water from your home first, but for the flexibility of activities, the luggage must be as light as possible.
Therefore, the drinking water during the event must be collected on-site during the itinerary and then filtered and stored on the spot using a pocket filter.

Ans 6. [River tracing]
There was water everywhere during the tracing activity. Do I still need to bring so much drinking water?

River tracing activities are usually activities with a large amount of activity, and require lighter assembly of activities.
Therefore, the drinking water during the event can be taken on-site during the itinerary, and it is the best choice to use the pocket filter to filter and drink on the spot.

Ans 7. [School]
My child thinks it is too heavy to bring drink water from home, what should I do?

Schools generally replace the filters of drinking fountains to ensure the safety of drinking water for school children.
It is possible that due to financial factors, it is impossible to replace the filter regularly for every water dispenser. Please check the checklist next to the water dispenser to see if the qualified filter is replaced on schedule.
Or prepare a pocket filter. If you are worried about the water from the water dispenser, you can put the filter in the existing kettle and use a straw to suck and filter. The pocket filter can filter out all bacteria in the water very effectively.

Ans 8. [School]
I drank the water I brought home, is the water in the school drinking fountain reliable?

Ans 9. [School]
My child has finished playing at school, and there is no water in the drinking fountain, so what should I do to quench his thirst?

Tap water from school taps is polluted through pipelines and must contain a lot of bacterial impurities.
If you can't find safe drinking water, you can prepare a pocket filter, and put the filter in the existing kettle to suck and filter. The pocket filter can filter out all bacteria in the water very effectively.

Ans 10. [Home]
Can the water in our water purifier be drunk raw?

First determine what kind of material the water purifier filter at home is made of.
Generally speaking, the water purifiers available for raw drinking on the market include RO reverse osmosis, UV germicidal lamps, and hollow fiber membranes.

RO reverse osmosis is the best way to purify water at present, but because it is clean, the water production speed is slow, and a water storage tank is usually installed at the back; after a long time, this water storage tank has turned into bacteria. Therefore, it is recommended to replace the last filter element behind the reservoir with a hollow fiber membrane filter element to ensure the final drinking water quality.
In order to achieve the function of raw drinking, some composite filters that claim to have a small volume will install a UV germicidal lamp at the end; but please confirm with the industry whether the UV lamp is sufficient for the instantaneous sterilization time of the water flow.
The hollow fiber membrane filter can filter out impurities above 0.1 microns, including all bacteria. The hollow fiber membrane is matched with an activated carbon filter to meet the requirements of tap water and drinking water, and it does not discharge waste water and save electricity.

Ans 11. [Home]
Can our water ionizer be drunk raw?

Electrolysis and filtration are two different functions.
Electrolysis is to use the neutral water to provide alkaline water for us to drink; but whether it can be drunk or not depends on the filtration system.
The water ionizer in the market has two filtration methods: activated carbon and hollow fiber membrane. If there is only activated carbon filter, it is not recommended to drink raw.

Ans 12. [Home]
The water from the water purifier will have white scale after being boiled, what should I do?

That is because the quality of local tap water is hard, that is, the content of calcium and magnesium ions in the water is high, and calcium carbonate is produced when it is boiled and heated.
Hard water is harmless to the human body. It contains only a small amount of calcium and will not cause kidney stones, but will only affect the taste of drinking.
If you really want to improve, you only need to install an ion exchange resin filter before the activated carbon filter and the hollow fiber membrane (or RO membrane) filter.