Water filter system needed?

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Redlory

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Sept 25

• Today at 2:20 AM

• #1

Hello,
I'm planning to walk the Via Podiensis in autumn 2025 to Cahors.
My question: is potable water regularly available or would you recommend taking a water filtration system?
Thanks heaps

 

Peterexpatkiwi

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Inglès April 2023
Primitivo July 2023

• Today at 10:13 AM

• #2

@Redlory, welcome to the forum.

I have yet to walk this route, ( planned for next year) but everything that I have read (here, YouTube, Reddit etc) says that potable water is readily available.
In France it is very common to find a potable water source in the cemetery.

That said, I will be carrying a filter because I already own it, it only weighs 80gm, and I intend to camp along the way. (The filter means I don't have to carry as much water)

If I was simply walking from Gite to Gite I would not bother.

 

Lexicos

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2017 Camino Frances,
2019 C. Portuguese (inland).

• Today at 11:35 AM

• #3

Redlory said:

Hello,
I'm planning to walk the Via Podiensis in autumn 2025 to Cahors.
My question: is potable water regularly available or would you recommend taking a water filtration system?
Thanks heaps

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Yes, in my experience it is, and I’ve walked it twice. I’ve not had to buy water or to filter it. Readily available along this route.

 

Pafayac

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Plata ? Portugues ? Invierno ?

• Today at 11:38 AM

• #4

France is well-developed country.

 

Paul-CH

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2025 Vía Francigena (I) Mar.-Apr. Vercelli-Rome

• Today at 11:58 AM

• #5

When I have been hiking in 2017 there where enough places to get water for me.
The fountains are marked if you should/can't drink the water. At the cemeteries there is usually a tap with drinking water. When you go into a Restaurant for a coffee, they will refill your bottles when you ask for it.
You may check the distances between the towns with Camino de Le Puy