Health

You can drink the water - you can - but you may not want to. It tastes disgusting which is why you see even the oldest babicka in Prague struggling home from the supermarket with a six pack of the local bottled water. Doctors also recommend bottled water for infants under one year of age. The other health complaint common to Praguers is the winter hacking cough. This is due to the fact that lots of them smoke and the pollution levels, although better than they once were, are still high. If you are unlucky you will be here on one of the famous inversion days, when polluted hot air from the city is trapped by cloud cover and the city becomes smog bound - sometimes for several weeks. If this happens the government advises small children to stay indoors. We recommend you do the same.