We’ve launched a new Travel Advice hub and a growing library of practical travel water articles to help travellers make safer, better-informed decisions before and during a trip.
Since launching Can I Drink the Tap Water?, our main focus has been providing clear country and destination guidance. These new guides expand that information by answering the broader questions travellers regularly have about tap water, ice, hotels, illness, water treatment and trip planning.
Five new travel advice categories
The Travel Advice hub is organised into five categories, making it easier to find information based on where you are in your travel planning.
Before You Travel
These guides help travellers understand how to research drinking water safety before leaving home, what official advisories mean and why water quality can vary between regions and cities.
While Travelling
This section covers practical questions that often come up once a trip begins, including hotel tap water, brushing your teeth, ice, airport refill stations and drinking water while flying.
Travel Health
Our travel health guides explain traveller’s diarrhoea, dehydration, waterborne illnesses and what to do after accidentally drinking water that may not be safe.
Water Science
These articles explain how drinking water is treated and tested, what causes contamination and why safe tap water is available in some places but not others.
Travel Planning
This category brings together broader destination planning resources, including countries and popular tourist destinations where tap water is generally considered safe.
Nine articles available at launch
The first nine articles are now live:
- Can You Brush Your Teeth with Tap Water?
- Countries Where You Can Safely Drink Tap Water
- How Governments Test Drinking Water
- How Long Does Traveller's Diarrhoea Last?
- Is Hotel Tap Water the Same as City Tap Water?
- Popular Tourist Destinations with Safe Tap Water
- Traveller's Diarrhoea Explained
- What Causes Water Contamination?
- Why Water Quality Can Vary Within the Same Country
Building a more complete travel water resource
The new article library will continue to grow alongside our country and destination guides. The goal is to create a complete resource that answers both the immediate question—whether the tap water is safe to drink—and the practical questions that follow.
Future articles will cover topics such as drinking water advisories, boiling and filtering water, bottled water, airport refill stations, water on planes, signs of dehydration and when to seek medical advice after food or water poisoning.
Explore the full Travel Advice hub or browse all currently available articles.