Is it safe to drink the water in Los Cabos - La Paz, Mexico?
John K. Glaab - the settlement company®
We tend not to drink the water from the taps in Los Cabos and La Paz. The water in Los Cabos and La Paz comes from aquifers in the ground so people don’t drink it. There is a certain amount of minerals in the water. There used to be a lot of mining around here years ago so the water is processed and comes out of the tap and used for cooking, hand washing, laundry, etc. People buy treated water in big garrafons, which are 5-gallon containers of water. You can also buy smaller bottles...We tend not to drink the water from the taps in Los Cabos and La Paz. The water in Los Cabos and La Paz comes from aquifers in the ground so people don’t drink it. There is a certain amount of minerals in the water. There used to be a lot of mining around here years ago so the water is processed and comes out of the tap and used for cooking, hand washing, laundry, etc. People buy treated water in big garrafons, which are 5-gallon containers of water. You can also buy smaller bottles of water that are about 2 to 3 liters. Generally, people drink water that they buy from water companies or from the supermarket. The restaurants here also sell water in small bottles and they also have water from the garrafons. There is no problem with the ice that they use in restaurants because they make the ice from purified water from the garrafons. A great stainless steel tanker comes and they have a place where they take the water out of the truck and give it to the clients.
Overall, water is not an issue here in Los Cabos and La Paz. When we buy vegetables from the open-air market, we just wash them with tap water and we’re alright. There is also a chemical that you can buy in small bottle that you can use to rinse your vegetables. You just have to put a couple of drops of that in tap water and use it to rinse off your vegetables. But we don’t have the problem that (God forbid) they have in Flint, Michigan.
(Agua de jamaica, a cold tea made from hibiscus flowers, Mexico, pictured.)
Posted February 13, 2016
Jimena Malagamba
Overall in Mexico, you cannot drink water from the tap. It is, however, safe to buy and drink water from bottling companies that make what they call garafones, which are 20 liter jugs of water (a little more than 5 gallons) filled with purified water. There are several businesses selling this water all over the area, including in our little town of El Sargento, which is perfectly safe to drink. In general, it is safe to drink the water at...
Overall in Mexico, you cannot drink water from the tap. It is, however, safe to buy and drink water from bottling companies that make what they call garafones, which are 20 liter jugs of water (a little more than 5 gallons) filled with purified water. There are several businesses selling this water all over the area, including in our little town of El Sargento, which is perfectly safe to drink. In general, it is safe to drink the water at any restaurant, even if they bring you a glass of water, as opposed to a bottle of water, because that water in the glass came from a larger jug of purified water.
I am not concerned about getting sick from eating anything in restaurants, including fresh vegetables. I know that the people in the restaurant have good cleaning skills and they mostly rinse everything with bottled water. If they don’t rinse with bottled water, there’s a product that you can put the water with iodine that kills all the bacteria in it.
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Posted June 17, 2016