As a general advice for tourists, please do NOT drink the tap water in India. We also recommend not to use it for brushing your teeth, cleaning your tooth brush or for doing Neti (a practice for cleansing/clearing your nostrils). Bottled (mineral) water is recommended when staying in hotels in India, although we strongly suggest not to buy them unless necessary. The pollution in India, due to plastic, is growing rapidly as the country does not have an environment-friendly system to dispose of plastic yet. Our retreat home in Kainchi has a water filtering system for drinking water. In addition for your health, we require that you bring a “microbiological UV water purifier, such as the All Clear by Camelbak or the SteriPEN portable UV water purifier.
IS THE WATER SAFE TO DRINK IN INDIA?
