Clear Water Revival

No not the music group.
How safe is the water to drink in Philippines?
UK river pollution is getting worse, with some Water Authorities accused of emptying pure sewage into it's rivers, at times of heavy rain.
This combined with Farm fertilisers and Animal waste is entering and affecting the fish in large numbers in our rivers.
With the World Population increasing and the never ending demand for clean water, will Water become the next liquid Gold for investors as the demand for fuel decreases.
Just another thought for today.....JB

 

I wouldn't drink tap water here, with a price of 1php/ liter for it to go thru filtration, it's an easy buy. I don't know how often the filters are actually cleaned so it is probably just a placebo, so I pretend it's good.

Each rainy season brings flooding from poor drainage and litter clogging tge little drainage there is.
For rural areas, in addition to over fertilization the septic tanks here are.... Low standard.... with little or no drainfield nor filtration, some are 1 chamber (aka a hole in the ground with hollow blocks around and a dirt bottom.

We've had a private well and still buy our drinking water, my thinking is just because it test clean now, what happens with the next rainy season? What are people uphill from us doing? Best to be safe.

In addition, raw sewage is common. Every year there are stories of companies big and small cutting cost this way. The government stepped in to clean up Boracy as it was disgusting. If anyone thinks Manilla Bay is safe for swimming just because they added dolomite then I will also sell you some beachfront property in Navada, just outside of Las Vegas.

 

How deep is your well ? been thinking about having one myself

 

I agree. But its worth noting that not all Philippine bottled water facilities are well managed and maintained. On very rare occasions I have had bouts of LBM from bottled water coming from an unsanitary distributor. I doubt if any government officials check them over. Some of them may be selling tap water. So we pays our money and takes our chances and have the peace of mind that the water has 'probably' gone through a filtration process.

 

Our original well was 36m deep but after a couple of years, as more people moved into the area, it ran dry. We then sunk it deeper to 60m which lasted for about another 4 years and the same thing happened. We're now at 84m deep (14 x 6m long - 2" GI pipe) since the summer of 2017 and it's been fine.

 

wow, they now want 1k peso per foot... but being in the province I hope to get by with 35 mtrs Thanks

 

Woah....P1k per foot????!!! We're in the provinces too and, from memory, we paid IRO P2k per pipe length. If I can find the number for the guy that did ours I'll pm you with it.

 

You should consider supplying the GI pipe yourself. A neighbor had a well drilled and the pipe supplied by the drilling company only lasted 2 years before it rotted out. The water happened to be very acidic.
I have not bought any GI pipe here but I do buy steel from time to time. Uy Matiao seem to have the best quality that I have found, certainly not the cheapest. If you are doing something as expensive as a well you will want to protect your investment.

 

I agree about protecting the investment so we supplied the GI pipe - the P2k per pipe length was for the drilling which works out at about P100 per foot, not P1k per foot as DBD was quoted. Another point of advice is to continue to drill further to a depth of at least 2 or 3 pipe lengths after hitting water - the dry season can be long and very dry. (One particular year we went 13 weeks without any rain)