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Drink bottled water. You are always safe drinking the bottled water that is readily available at all the camps and lodges. Carry a bottle of water with you at all times – including on transfers between camps. Make it a practice to always have a bottle of water with you - period. If you are at all apprehensive about the quality of water where you are staying, check with the staff, and if the water is not treated or bottled then avoid ice in your drinks or cleaning your teeth with the tap water (use the bottled variety). Take water purification tablets for emergency use if you think bottled water will not be available (unlikely).

THE SAFARI INDUSTRY IS MAKING A CONCERTED EFFORT TO REDUCE THE USE OF PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES - TRY TO WORK WITH THEM.

A number of safari operators are making sterilized water bottles (mostly stainless steel) available for you to fill with purified water at their camps and lodges. This is an initiative that you should adopt wherever possible as this will have a significant and positive environmental impact. By doing away with the factory-filled (sealed) plastic water bottles you will not only save fuel in transporting these bottles to remote regions (by their thousands) but also solve the problem of the enormous pollution to roadsides and towns that these plastic bottles foster. Do your bit (please).

CAUTION: Dehydration is a real danger on safari and you should be careful to drink at regular intervals and have water at hand at all times.