Dubai restaurants must offer filtered tap water to customers from 2020

It will be the cafés' decision whether they charge for it or not. 

In an offer to eliminate plastic use and make eating out increasingly reasonable, all Dubai eateries and inns should offer separated faucet water to visitors from 2020. 

As indicated by The National, Dubai Municipality made the declaration as a major aspect of updates to the Dubai Food Code, which will be discharged in 2020. 

The head of Dubai Municipality's drinking water control unit, Amal Albedwawi, affirmed the news on Monday November 11, saying, "from one year from now, at whatever point you visit an inn or eatery you can choose whether to have filtered water or separated faucet water." 

Cafés will have the option to choose independently whether they charge clients for the separated faucet water, and surely the amount they charge. 

The Dubai Municipality official featured that while they had not set a particular guidelines around whether cafés could charge for faucet water, she didn't figure it would be. 

"In many places the world over faucet water isn't chargeable so if it is anything but a worldwide pattern I don't figure it will be sold here either," Ms Albedwawi said. 

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The Food Code was first presented by Dubai Municipality in 2013, and was intended to give rules to sanitation to cafés and inns in the city. 

In spite of the fact that the Dubai Food Code isn't government law, the new rule on offering faucet water in cafés as spread out in the Code could prompt a law being composed.