Tap water in Australia
Generally safe to drink
This reflects the CDC's travel health guidance for Australia; no WHO coverage figure is published for this country. National figures describe a country, not the tap in front of you.
What the sources say
Advises travellers that tap water is generally safe to drink in Australia.
86.45/100 on the water drinkability and accessibility index, which Numbeo reads as “Very high”. This one is crowdsourced from residents rather than measured.
Water is generally drinkable in Australia and is usually signposted if it is not safe.
Safe nationally still means ask locally. Older buildings can carry lead or copper pipework, and a single street can differ from the network feeding it. If you are staying somewhere old, ask your host.
What bottled water costs you here
Drinking tap water instead of bottled would save one adult about 1110$ a year in Australia, and keep several hundred plastic bottles out of circulation.
Work out your own savingPlaces in Australia
Water quality is local. These places have their own readings.
- Adelaide
- Albany
- Albury
- Alice Springs
- Ballarat
- Bathurst
- Blacktown
- Brisbane
- Bundaberg
- Busselton
- Cairns
- Canberra
- Darwin
- Dubbo
- Geelong
- Geraldton
- Gladstone
- Gold Coast
- Gosford
- Hervey Bay
- Hobart
- Kalgoorlie
- Launceston
- Mackay
- Melbourne
- Newcastle
- Parramatta
- Perth
- Port Macquarie
- Rockhampton
- Sunshine Coast
- Sydney
- Toowoomba
- Townsville
- Wagga Wagga
- Whyalla
- Wollongong
Elsewhere in Australia
- American Samoa
- Cook Islands
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Kiribati
- Marshall Islands
- Micronesia
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna