Drinking water is different from tap water

Tap water: refers to the water produced after purification and disinfection by the tap water treatment plant and conforming to the corresponding standards for people's living, production and use.

Tap water is not generally used for direct drinking in mainland China, but is used in some parts of the world due to higher quality control standards.

Drinking water: refers to drinking water for people to live and domestic water. Drinking water includes clean natural springs, well water, river water and lake water, as well as treated mineral water and purified water. Processed drinking water comes in the form of bottled water, bottled water and piped water.

It has strengthened the requirements of organic matter, microorganism and disinfection of water quality, and increased the number of drinking water quality indexes from 35 to 106 in the original standard (GB 5749-85).

Unified urban and rural drinking water sanitation standards; Referring to the Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality of the World Health Organization, the drinking water standards are in line with international standards. Due to China's vast territory and different local conditions, all the water quality indicators in the new standards will be implemented by July 1, 2010 at the latest.