Before cooking: In these countries, the drinking water is harmful to health

Not anywhere the quality of drinking water is as high as in this country; Germany is one of the few countries where the water can be drunk from the tap without hesitation. In some popular vacation countries but may become life threatening.

According to the Federal environment Agency, the tap water is in Germany, thanks to a regular, sharp controls across the Board from good to very good quality and is as cheap and plastic-free Alternative to industrially-Packed mineral water.

Recently, the Foundation test were advised to drink water from the tap than from the supermarket: a study of 32 breast-feeding mineral waters have shown that the half of them pathogens, traces of the agriculture and industry or other critical substances.

What is in Germany no Problem, can elsewhere be but fast dangerous: In a total of 187 countries and regions of the Island, tourists should drink in any case, unfiltered water. This warns the US health authority Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the drinking water quality of all the countries in the world regularly assessed. Not to count the countries with contaminated drinking water only developing countries for a long time. For these Europeans, popular travel destinations, the CDC issues a warning

• Egypt
• Morocco
• Turkey
• Tunisia
• Canary Islands
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus

Polluted drinking water: typhoid, Cholera and Hepatitis A threaten

According to the world health organization, 80 percent of all travel diseases to contaminated drinking water due. “First of all, human and animal faeces, surface poisons, such as pesticides from agriculture, wastewater from poorly controlled industrial operations, or a high content of natural chemical contaminants can endanger the health,” declared the Federal Foreign office (AA).

The person who drinks the water, however, must reckon with serious, sometimes life-threatening consequences. So typhoid, Cholera and Hepatitis A, there is a risk of “Severe Nausea, diarrhea and fever are typical symptoms which, however, are not always diagnosed immediately clear relapses,” says the consumer. Always medicines for typical ailments such as Nausea and diarrhea, such as loperamide, electrolyte powder, or Perenterol be included in the travel pharmacy.

In the case of untreated water hygiene, travellers should not, therefore, in any case, to drink tap water and no ice cubes in your drink give, warns the AA. The CDC adds that vacationers cleaning for the teeth to industrially bottled, boiled, filtered, or disinfected and conserved water should be applied. “Because ultimately, no one knows which pathogens are to be expected in the drinking water on the go, is the safest method for germ-free drinking water on vacation contamination from filtration and disinfection,” says the AA.

You can drink where tap water is safe and where is not

For 57 countries, worldwide, travelers can ignore the warnings, but according to the US authority confidently and tap water is safe to drink. The following list has been compiled by the travel portal travel book based on the data from the CDC, American virgin Islands, Andorra, Aruba, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Chile, cook Islands, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Canada, Croatia, Kuwait, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Martinique, Monaco, Netherlands, new Caledonia, new Zealand, Norway, Palau, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Réunion, Saint Helena, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.

If the drinking water quality like this country very well, so the consumer advises the Central, nevertheless, to leave the water before Drinking only once so long to cool from the tap. Because the water in the pipes, not more, for A fresh, on the Other, the long stay favorable in the direction of a possible bacterial contamination and the Transmission of substances from the fittings.

And also in the case of lead pipes in the house, caution is required; but anyway since December 2013, permitted and to find a maximum even in older buildings.

• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Ethiopia
• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• American Samoa
• Angola
• Anguilla
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Azores
• Bahamas
• Bangladesh
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belize
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Bolivia
• Bonaire
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• British Virgin Islands
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cayman Islands
• China
• Djibouti
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• Ivory coast
• El Salvador
• Eritrea
• Falkland Islands
• Faroe Islands
• Fiji
• French – Guyana
• French Polynesia
• Gabon
• The Gambia
• Georgia
• Ghana
• Gibraltar
• Grenada
• Guam
• Guatemala
• Guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guyana
• Haiti
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• India
• Indonesia
• Iraq
• Iran
• Jamaica
• Yemen
• Jordan
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Canary Islands
• Cape Verde
• Kazakhstan
• Kenya
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kiribati
• Small Antilles
• Colombia
• Kosovo
• Of the Congo
• Cuba
• Laos
• Lesotho
• Latvia
• Lebanon
• Liberia
• Libya
• Lithuania
• Macau
• Madagascar
• Madeira
• Malawi
• Malaysia
• Maldives
• Mali
• Marshall Islands
• Mauritania
• Mauritius
• Mayotte
• Mexico
• Micronesia
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Monserrat
• Morocco
• Macedonia
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Namibia
• Nauru
• Nepal
• Nicaragua
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Niue
• Norfolk Islands
• North Korea
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Oman
• East Timor
• Easter island
• Pakistan
• Panama
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Rwanda
• Romania
• Russia
• Saba
• Saint
• Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Solomon Islands
• Zambia
• Samoa
• San Tome
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Zimbabwe
• Sint Maarten
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Georgia
• Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• South Sudan
• Suriname
• Kingdom
• The eswatini
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Tokelau
• Tongo
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Chad
• Tunisia
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Tuvalu
• Uganda
• Ukraine
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Venezuela
• Vietnam
• Wake
• Christmas island
• Western Sahara
• Central African Republic
• Cyprus

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