Don't Drink the Water

[DonJuane]

Boiling is the best route but only if you use one of the filtration models that boils the water and follows up by distilling the steam from the boiled water into pure drinking water. Then even with this model as a solution, people complain about the energy they use and say the water "tastes flat", so you likely have to just select what works best for you.

Here's another bit of advise to people building here. Carefully consider how you wire your house and what appliances you plan on using. I am unique in that I was able to watch my rental being built which is not common. I saw the electrician who did a pretty fair job overall but he used 12 gauge wire between my master breaker panel and the meter outside on the wall. I was severely concerned and in fact after raising an issue had to pay for some number 6 (gauge) to replace the run between the breaker box and meter. That was the thickest that could go through the hole in the very thick wall. Then after living in the house a while I stood on the terrace one day and started visually tracing down some of the wires. It turns out that our neighborhood's transformer powers about 20 houses along this callejon and all of the houses are powered from what looks like about a 10 gauge wire. So it turns out the electrician was not that far off and should I have planned to add any significant electrical appliance, if I didn't melt the thin 12 gauge leading out the meter, there's a large chance I would melted the 10 gauge wire running up and down the callejon in front of the house. So make note.

Many years ago I remember that certain types of electrical appliances like deep fries or large waffle makers were prohibited from being imported into Mexico due to the electrical system. I have not heard of that lately but I certainly understand why it would be of major concern. For those of a curious nature, a 12 gauge wire is only capable of carrying 20 amps, the 10 gauge out on the street, 30A. If you have a breaker with 3-5 20A circuit breakers running to various rooms in your house, it doesn't take much to realize that you are going to be creating an overload either in my case with the sub-standard meter feed or in the case of any home in this neighborhood, the 30A maximum load capacity of the community wire running up and down the callejon.