Clean Drinking Water From the Tap

A minor inconvenience about living in Thailand is that tap water is not safe to drink. However, this can be easily gotten around by having an indoor water filtration system in the house. 

I have been using the Mazuma unit above for a couple of years already. It can be hung up as a standalone unit or made to fit into your existing sink. It cost more than 3000 baht for the entire set when I first bought it and you just need to replace the filter on top and the three canisters below it every year. 

The filter

The canisters of carbon, resin, and ceramic

As it was time to do the replacements, I bought the parts at HomePro yesterday and had the handyman come by to to do the job today. Total bill came to 1778 baht (parts) + 350 (labour & transport) = 2128 baht (about SGD 85). I was happy as just the transportation cost alone for a handyman in Singapore can easily be SGD 50. 

This is a small price to pay for the convenience of having clean drinking water from the tap.