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Drinking water that "burns"

While most towns and places take pride on native delicacies and dishes, Sta. Barbara, Iloilo has a drink that can actually do more than quench one's thirst. It doesn't stop flowing even during summer, it is colored like tea and it "burns". But before you take out your white hankies and start waving it; or line up, bathe or take a sip in the hopes of curing physical pains, it's not actually that "miraculous" in that sense. Known as "poso", this has been the drinking water of most Sta. Barbaranhons since time immemorial. There are around five poso "water stations" around the poblacion and the most popular and the biggest is known as Sulbod just behind the Sta. Barbara public market. Others are found along Montinola Street, near the elementary school, one known as "Licup" (bearing the name of the family where it is found) and (an already defunct one) near the municipal hall. There are also p