Drinking water
 

What do people do for drinking water?
Would you drink direct from a well?
Or a tap at a campsite/garage?

Bottled water for drinking personally


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I use a filter or steripen.

Depends on the country. In South America, USA and Europa tap water was ok. In Afrika water from pumps was ok otherwise i bought 5 liter bottles. Same in Asia. Filters were useless. Megkong water blocked my expensive 150 Euro swiss ceramik filter after 1/2 liter...
In India most of the restaurants have filters so it was cheaper to buy a meal and then ask them to refill your bottle as to buy a bottle from Nestle: Offroad Motorrad Weltreisen - das letzte Abenteuer

I did intend to ask about Morocco. Does anyone just drink the local water (using some common sense) get a bit ill now and again and carry on?

I've got a truck underslung tank and we usually use a 10ltr plastic bottle of drinking water. I there was a neat was to filter or sterilise the water in the 10ltr bottle that would be neat.

Yes, except I never get ill - or not from Moroccan tap water, at least.
Nor from well / guelta water in the sterile Sahara.

Yes to both. Never got knowingly ill off either.
All this faffing with tablets and filters - not needed in North Africa/Sahara.
More humid/populated Sahel – another matter.

The only time I buy bottled in Mk is on my tours because it reassures people and it's a way of making sure they drink, when they might be nervous of tap water.

Same with filtering guelta water on camel tours (2nd pic; not Mk). What a faff.
After a while, told people to BYO filters/tablets if they can be bothered.

Each to their own but people are unnecessarily squeamish about desert water sources in my experience. I suppose it's understandable but I find it's resto food that gets you.

As you say, common sense is the key.

Below: the sparkling spring at Ayoun du Draa ruins (MW3).
As fresh as you like.

In 11 years of RVing through 30-odd countries we have never had a medical problem remotely attributable to the water we drink out of our RV tank. They are filled up from whatever source is necessary - Morocco, generally village water supplies but sometimes rope and bucket wells, Turkey - often from roadside memorial springs, South America - from fuel stations and municipal supplies, Mexico from whatever is available, Portugal and Spain - from roadside and village springs and pipes, etc etc..
Rarely I add a small amount of unscented bleach or in Europe, some micropure powder, but mostly don't bother. The only time we have bought bottled water was in Baja because the local water tasted terrible when making tea of coffee. Other places, like Argentina, parts of the USA and outback Australia, we will taste the water and if OK, fill the tank and if not wait until we get to the next source. Only in one rig (in the USA) is there a filter and that is more taste and odour rather than any hope of creating potable water out of sewage.

Let's keep the advice to Morocco region, as the OP intended.
Otherwise this will become a very long thread ;-)

'Town water' in Morocco is safe. It varies in taste as you might expect, some towns (e.g. Ouarzazate) have more chlorine added than others.

But when you order a coffee it's usual to be given a (free) bottle of tap water that's been drawn off some time earlier and kept in the fridge so it's lovely and cool. My favourite water in Morocco is Taroudannt.

Purify
 

Use 4 drops of Iodine per litre and let it stand for 20 mins before drinking. Kills everything biological but no good against heavy metals and radioactivity.beer

We never use bottled water in Morocco, after seeing the way any garbage, especially plastics are dumped on the edges of towns to scatter in the wind. You usually know you are getting close to a town in the south by the amount of garbage that starts appearing in the fields next to the road.

We get water from petrol stations...they all have wash bays with a extra tap and run it through a filter. Never had a problem.