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Can You Drink Tap Water in Fuqing?
We don't have enough information to make a specific recommendation about the safety of drinking tap water in Fuqing, China.
However, based on information from nearby locations, the average water score in China is a out of 100.
Tap Safe includes data from many publicly available sources, including the WHO (World Health Organization), CDC (Center for Disease Control), and user submitted databases, but unfortunately there's not enough data about Fuqing.
To see user submitted ratings of the water quality for China, see the "User Submitted Ratings" box on this page.
Many people around the world are questioning how safe is it to drink tap water in Fuqing Jinping. It is a village that has been occupied by the Chinese for many years, and even today the children are not allowed to bathe in the same water as their parents, only drinking it.
As you can imagine, this is an extremely difficult situation for the children, and it is not easy for the parents either. One mother who had five children told me, "When I was a single mother, I could not afford to send my husband or me to school because my children needed me. If I did not have my children''s clean water, then my job would be more difficult."
I have heard that in the villages, children are not only taught to keep their hands away from the tap water, but they are also made to watch all the times their mothers go to wash their clothes. One of the children complained to me, "My mother does not wash me properly, she uses too much water." The parents did not want to he
USER SUBMITTED RATINGS
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- Drinking Water Quality and Accessibility
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The above data is comprised of subjective, user submitted opinions about the water quality and pollution in Fuqing, measured on a scale from 0% (lowest) to 100% (highest).
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Reminder
Always take extra precautions, the water may be safe to drink when it leaves the sewage treatment plant but it may pick up pollutants during its way to your tap. We advise that you ask locals or hotel staff about the water quality. Also, note that different cities have different water mineral contents.