Straight answers about water in Lebanon
Written by the people who test and filter it, sourced where they quote a number, and honest about what filtration cannot do.
Is tap water in Lebanon safe to drink?
What published testing has actually found in the mains supply, why the distribution network is where it goes wrong, and what makes water drinkable at home.
Building water tanks
Almost every apartment in Lebanon drinks water that has been stored. What collects in a tank between cleanings, and why the filter belongs on the line leaving it.
Hard water and limescale
Scale is the most visible water problem in the country and the most often misdiagnosed — including by the filter most people buy to fix it.
Well water
A well has no chlorination and nobody monitoring it. What to test for, and why treatment is a sequence rather than a product.
Reading is the cheap part
The only way to know what is in your water is to have it tested, and that is where an installation starts