Malta - Tap Water - Drinking Water - Bottled Water

Potable water in Malta

Malta desalianation plant - Malta Tap Water - Drinking Water Most of the tap water in Malta is desalinated sea water by process known as reverse osmosis. More than half the potable water of Malta is produced by desalination, which creates further issues of fossil fuel use and pollution and makes water a relatively expensive commodity.

Malta depends on underground reservoirs for the rest of its fresh water, drawn through a system of water tunnels called the Ta' Kandja galleries, which average about 97 m below surface and extend like the spokes of a wheel. In the galleries cut into Malta's porous limestone, fresh water lies in a lens like pool on top of brine.

Malta filtered bottled water - Malta - Tap Water - Drinking Water - Potable water in Malta Maltese tap water is fine for washing, making tea, cleaning teeth etc. and you can drink it and cook in it as it is perfectly safe to do so, but it can have a slight hint of salt to it and because of this it can cause stomach upsets among tourists not because it's bad water but because it's completely different than what we are used to in the UK. Malta - If you're self-catering - you don't need to add salt to taste when cooking - perfect for cooking your pasta!

Most Maltese drink the local bottled water which is fine! There may be another slight problem in that tap water needs to travel in pipes and via storage containers or tanks that are often open to the elements and may be far from hygienic delivering tap water of variable quality.

The fresh water supply does pose a slight problem on Malta, as the summer is both rainless and the time of greatest water use, and the Malta winter rainfall often falls as heavy showers which run off quickly to the sea rather than soaking into the ground.