Re: [79attendees] Drinking water?

Brushing your teeth falls into this category as well. Tap water needs  
to stay out of your mouth altogether (speaking from past experience).

-- dan

On Nov 7, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@qualcomm.com>  
wrote:

> At 9:22 PM -0400 11/6/10, Thomas Walsh wrote:
>
>> No, it appears the water in the tap in Shangri-La is not safe to  
>> drink.  There is a warning on the Shangri-La web page not to drink  
>> the tap water in the hotel but to boil it first.
>> "Shangri-La recommends you drink only boiled or bottled water  
>> during your stay in Beijing. Complimentary bottled drinking water  
>> is available in every room."
>>
>> See http://www.shangri-la.com/en/property/beijing/shangrila/facts/publichealth
>>
>> So I also avoid using ice in drinks, and only hot drinks or bottled  
>> drinks.
>
> That also implicates any food served in the hotel that was  
> presumably washed in tap water, such as salads, fruit, possibly  
> juices.  Of course, basic travel advice is to not eat anything that  
> wasn't cooked just before you ate it; although fruit that you  
> yourself peeled is OK, per the CDC.  I was hoping this hotel was  
> better; the fresh fruit looks so good.  (Various food safety sites  
> report that, for example, watermelons may be injected with tap water  
> to increase their weight.)
>
> -- 
> Randall Gellens
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