Thanks to budget-friendly travel sites like Airbnb, countless airfare search engines, and even globe-trotting culinary internships, traveling has become more accessible than ever. As a result, your Instagram feed is likely swamped with friends' latest backpacking journeys and all of the amazing food that goes along with it. But behind the social media lens, there are smart and safe travel tips everyone needs to know before jet-setting. The most important among them is where you can actually drink the tap water.
While it's widely known you shouldn't gulp down the H2O in Mexico (see The Sex & The City Movie's Charlotte during a girls' getaway), there are a surprising number of countries around the world where you should never drink the tap water—lest you get a stomach bug or diarrhea, contract Norovirus or Hepatitis, or worse (like Legionella).
Thanks to interactive maps from Just the Flight, you can now easily pinpoint every country to not only check the safety of its tap water but also detect the average price of bottled water there. The infographic compiled data from the Centers for Disease Control and water.org to present the most accurate and up-to-date information possible.
For the most part, in countries where tap water is not safe, bottled water is fairly affordable, hovering at about 50 cents to $1 each. But there are some exceptions, like in Costa Rica where a bottle will set you back $2 or more.
Here are the highlights:
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