What's the water like??

[disneyworldmom]

I have heard different things about the drinking water at Disney. Mainly I've heard that it has a taste to it, but could be masked with drink mix. My friends just got back and heard stories of people getting sick from drinking the water. I really don't want to have any bathroom emergencies while there.

Has anyone actually drank the water and lived to report about it?

Any replies would be greatly appreciated!

Trying to decide between free ice water or shipping bottled water to our room.

 

[MapleGirl]

Yup. I drink the water. I use the water fountains, get free ice water from the counter service places and drink the ice water in the restaurants (on and off Disney property). It tastes bad, but I've never gotten sick from it. If it's super cold (ice water) it doesn't taste as bad. I also use the tap water to brush my teeth and wash my face.

 

[TimandTanya]

Water tables down here are about 3 feet!! Ok, that is slight exageration, but you get the drift. The water is totally safe, but the taste is terrible. We carry those packets of Sugar Free Lemonade, Sport Drinks, Punch etc., and add them to our bottled water if we refill at a water fountain. Hope this helps.

 

[WillCAD]

I haven't heard of people getting sick from the drinking water at WDW or in Orlando, though some people may get sick from other causes and mistakenly blame the water.

But I don't like the taste of the water, either. Inside WDW property it has a very metalic tang to it, and in Kissimmee it has more of a Florida swampwater aftertaste; it's a little bit sulfurous.

I take a filtered sports bottle with me, and that gets rid of any disagreeable taste to the water. I use a Brita Fill and Go, but those were discontinued a few years ago, Thee days, you can find filtered sports bottes at WalMart, though; they are generally either in the isle with the Brita and Pur filters, or somewhere in Home Improvement. They're about $10.

You can also buy them online from a company called Pure Water 2 Go. I've used these myself and find them comparable to my Brita bottles. They also sell filtered inserts designed to be used with any ordinary Deer Park, Aquafina, Dassani, or similar water bottle; just put the filter in, refill the bottle from any source, and you have good-tasting water.

 

[chrisw127]

I've never heard of anyone getting sick from drinking the water, but it doesn't taste very good. It's funny, because to me the water in North Florida is amazing. Not sure why it tastes so different just a couple hundren miles to the south.

 

[mickeyME2]

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[mickeyME2]

The water has not made me sick. I usually just use it for my coffee and brushing my teeth and the gulp for taking vitamins in the morning. I use my "snacks" from the meal plan for bottled water. I wouldn't recommend using too much of those sweet iced tea mixes unless you drink a lot of those on a regular basis. Sometimes the extra sweetener can make a person sick and then bathroom emergencies would come from that.

I do drink the water from sit down restaurants. The water is cold and the taste is better than from the tap in the rooms. Check out "Florida Water Works" web page and see the report for yourself. It's rated bad compared to the rest of the US, but I haven't gotten sick. The way I see it is, more soda for one week than usual isn't going to hurt anything.

Oh, and if you see a hose, or spout that says, "not for drinking", don't drink it! They recycle the "waste" for fertilizer and watering the grass. They do purify it before using it on the grass, but they are serious when they say "not for drinking".

 

[reducereuserecycle]

first time i stayed on property as a kid I used the water to brush my teeth the first morning and never put another drop of it in my mouth again. i just use bottled water for everything at disney. the taste was horrible.

and at home i just drink filtered tap water...so, i'm not a bottled water drinker the rest of the time.

 

[trekkie2]

The water in the parks is pumped directly from the river in Jungle Cruise
Ok not really but sure tastes that way! We get free cups of water from counter service restaurants and fill a Nalgene bottle to carry with us. The restaurant water is apparently filtered and does not taste so bad.

 

[froggergirl14]

I'm a water snob!! And I love the water in Disney World

 

[Sandy321]

Just like every state - they have a water treatment plant - and they do tests all the time!

but it may have an "off" taste/flavor to you -

But dont hesitate to get the free ice water at every local that sells pop - just ask for a large glass of ice water!!

 

[finnegancm]

I've been down in WDW twice this year and six times previously and have never gotten sick off of the water; but then again I live in South Jersey, and our tap water is known for having a heavy, metallic taste for those who aren't used to it, so I think it's probably a personal preference. My girlfriend can only drink filtered water at home, and she thinks the counter service locations' free glasses of water are pretty comparable.

 

[2binak]

I can't drink it, but DH can. I made tea in our room once and all I could taste was chlorine - YUCK! I use the level 1 filters that screw onto the top of a plastic bottle. I fill the bottle, squeeze the water out to make my tea and then fill the bottle again before leaving for the parks and then refill at water fountains throughout the day. These DO NOT fit every bottle. The cheapest I've seen them is at pure water 2go.

 

[DanBoris]

I found the water in the Magic Kingdom water fountains to have a very strong metallic taste to it, I only drank it when I was really thirsty. I didn't find the water in Epcot to be as bad.

 

[Shenanigoat]

I've been down in WDW twice this year and six times previously and have never gotten sick off of the water; but then again I live in South Jersey, and our tap water is known for having a heavy, metallic taste for those who aren't used to it, so I think it's probably a personal preference. My girlfriend can only drink filtered water at home, and she thinks the counter service locations' free glasses of water are pretty comparable.

I'm originally from South Jersey and don't mind WDW water either. I now live in CA and I can't stand the tap water, I think it taste like pool water. When in WDW I buy one bottle of water, then refill it from (hopefully) cold water fountains. I have flavor packets (all natural ones from Whole Foods) that I use sometimes. I've never had an issue with the Florida water.

 

[dancer4life22]

I have heard different things about the drinking water at Disney. Mainly I've heard that it has a taste to it, but could be masked with drink mix. My friends just got back and heard stories of people getting sick from drinking the water. I really don't want to have any bathroom emergencies while there.

Has anyone actually drank the water and lived to report about it?

Any replies would be greatly appreciated!

Trying to decide between free ice water or shipping bottled water to our room.

where im from the water is really clean because everyone filters it or gets int from bottles. the water in disney is filtered. its not from bottles. it kinda has a pool water chloriney taste. that i personally didnt like. i got used to it eventually but i think im gonna take drink mixes this time.