Tap water in santo domingo?

Question

i heard that visitors in santo domingo shouldnt drink tap water because they will get sick due to the quality of the tap water in the city. i know people who live there that dont get sick from the tap water. so my question is are some people immune to the tap water in santo domingo? because i know people who have gotten sick while others havent.

Answer 1

The direct answer to your question is yes. When you grow up with something you become desensitized to it.  If you are going there for a visit, do not drink the tap water.

Answer 2

The locals of Santo Domingo are probably so used to the water they drink that they don't get sick. I'm sure that when they first drank it they got sick, but they must have gotten so used to the water that they feel no difference. If a foreign visitor drank the water for the first time, they would probably become sick since they would not be used to the minerals in the water. Santo Domingo is doing all they can to sanitize their country (they even have a charity) and I wish them the best of luck! If you are going to Santo Domingo and happen to feel the urge to drink water, please drink from a water bottle. It's much more safer and healthier. If you're going, be safe and have fun!

Answer 3

What causes the 'caribbean revenge' is, the organisms in THEIR water as compared to the water you drink at home.  Your gut has it's own flora and fuana... it's own BUGGIES... and your body lives with them because they are beneficial.

When you go someplace else (this can even be true in the U.S.) the buggies are DIFFERENT than what your system is accustomed to.. and that 'revenge' comes from your INTERNAL BUGGIES fighting with the invading buggies, so your whole system goes into the evacuation mode.

When I go to a foreign country and plan to be there for a long time, I start out by drinking the local water... IF... and ONLY IF  the LOCALS DRINK IT... if the locals are drinking bottled water... then that is what I drink...

Anyway.. if the locals are drinking it, then I know from experience I can change my system over.  I start out on day one with just a mouthfull of tap water... next day.. it's 2 mouth fulls... then a half pint... then a pint... then a quart and once my system is no longer in shock... then I drink it just like the locals.

THERE IS A DANGER IN THIS... there are PATHOGENS in the water that can end up in your blood stream... so you need a knowledge of WHAT is IN THE WATER... you don't need worms in your gut.

The SAFEST THING you can drink in ANY THIRD WORLD COUNTRY is the LOCAL BEER... It's usually a very mild beer, low in alcohol... but the alcohol in it is enough to kill anything that the bottling process didn't eliminate... so any local buggies you do drink are just their dead bodies and your system can usually handle that.

Answer 4

I used to live there.  People there don't actually drink from the tap.  They either have a filter, add chlorine to the water or boil it.

Answer 5

As a visitor: Don't drink tab water, your system is not used to it.

El Pinguino

Answer 6

We call it the "South (Dominican) Beach Diet"

If you want to lose a lot of weight drink a lot of water out of the tap.

It is full of c**p and I mean that literally.  This place is a pig sty and they throw their garbage in the rivers so it washes away of if they don't have a river they throw it right in front of the house.

Answer 7

Those who live there are already used to the type of tap water that they drink, and thus they do not get sick. Foreigners are used to drinking the water from wherever they come from and the difference can cause you to get sick.

I suggest drinking bottled water if you're going to go there.

Answer 8

you wont get sick.