Water Quality in Qatar

I had a similiar salesman knocking my door at dinner time. He was nicely dressed with a tie and white shirt .He was promoting his brand of water purifiers and the prices quoted by him was QAR 2900 or so.
He indicated that bottled water which is consumed is harmful in the longrun and people can suffer from gastro-something he said etc.....

So the best solution as per him was to install this water purifier which provides filtered , ion-treated 100% pur water .

He also indicated that he can prove that bottled water was unsafe.

However at dinner time , we were in no mood to give him any more time and we bid him bye bye .

Not enough fluoride and chlorine..
If they could guarantee their quality of water, Why they are selling bottles of water?

The Red Pope of Qatar Living
I have seen a twelve toe stripper, I have seen one breasted stripper, I have seen a brainless stripper, but never in my life a one legged stripper! Quentin tarantino-Planet Terror--

Water supplied through the pipeline is safe.
At the same time why dont you just use a normal filter and boil it
for use?
NO harm will come.

since ive been here the last four months my hair is falling out and when visited the Dr he stated theres a lot of people repoting the same thing, including himself, something to do with the water. Even the hairdresser my hubby goes to said most people are complaining of hair thinning and falling. This really is a dilema here, whats the alternative bath in bottled water, even thats apparently not safe anymore!!!

If the proposed system is for filtration and desalination, the price of 2900 QAR is expensive. it consists of skid mounted small water pump, 4 stages cartridge and carbon filters, reverse osmosis membrane and small pressure tank (ultra violet disinfection lamp can be added).

In general sea water is desalinated using reverse osmosis or distillation system process to reduce the salt levels, however this process sometimes can not control precisely the value of each of the salt and therefore some salt reduced to less than the favorable levels but in general it is OK.

Adding that small water desalination and filtration system to the sea water desalinated system (tap water) means further reduction of some salts to unfavorable levels.

however, If the proposed system is only filtration system (without reverse osmosis membrane)it will be fine and will filter the water and remove residual chlorine, organic matter, bad taste and Color IF presents in water.

I have one small desalination and filtration system in my home country Syria where we get the water from springs/shallow wells. In this case the filtration system is good as it reduces the salts from higher acceptable values to the normal acceptable values ( I can live without it).

Dog gets water from tap. After all, it's a dog. It doesn't expect anything more.

alexanderforrest..thats a bit harsh, stupid people! You may be a dentist or a tooth expert but others aren't!

BTW, the kidney failure could be due to the amount of diabetics in this country not the water.....

I think the hair loss is from the driving, not the water.

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If anyone wants a copy of of a water sample taken from the Well at Wakra please PM me - it is 100% safe for drinking.

BTW, Water from the Desal plant is not only boiled but also passes through a reverse osmosis plant

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"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

new intown, washing your car can cost you a 10.000 Riyal fine!

"It is ok for car washing". It is not ok for car washing. Car washing with "drinking" water is not allowed.
"I hope you not an english teacher." should read: I hope you are not an English teacher.

The water supply is perfectly safe to drink and the "state of the art water treatment" works fine.

The only possible problem comes from the pipes leading from the main supply to the houses, and also the tanks where the water is stored. The water company has no control over these elements. But even with this slight risk, I personally think it's fine to drink water straight from the tap, but people will always be over-paranoid about these sorts of things.

Suffered hair loss in Qatar. Maybe water quality is OK at the time of production, but the condition and cleanliness of pipework and storage tanks is extremely questionable. My hair loss stopped once I left Qatar, so it was either the water or the excessive bu----t associated with living and working in that place. Maybe it was bit of both...

The comment is based on information and test results I've read and heard from various sources so I believe it is true. Plus drinking it has never done me any harm.

So I probably "know that" better than you know the details about personal and professional car washing.

Indeed, I mentioned the tanks and local pipes as potential problems in my earlier comment.

Tallg,

Yes you did infer it wasn't clean but despite this it seems you keep drinking it and so it is ok for one and all. It seems you are playing a one up contest on what you think you know and chose to misinterpretate my original point, that the water is only good for washing cars. I could have said equally goats or camels backsides.

By your own admission you are drinking the 'water' and it is nice to think you are....CHEERS

As others have said here, the desalinated water is upto international standards, however, it has a bit more disolved carbon dioxide in it. This wreaks havoc with copper pipes (as i have experienced). Only problem is between the desal plant and the tap. This is where the water gets contaminated. So I only drink bottled water. Incidentally, the big bottles used in water fountains comes from the desalination plant too.

fiji water for me. tastes the same everywhere

How did that abstinence-only education work out for the Palin family?

Has this issue affected women too? It'd be scary...
I don't drink tap water here, and neither does my dog, but what aoubt Rayyan bottled water? Is it ok or all that contaminated stuff swims in there too? Is it best to switch to Evian (and see my wallet cry...)?