And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
You can pick up a lovely grab-bag of parasites from “pure” mountain water — Giardia being the fan favorite — plus the occasional bacteria that turns a weekend hike into a bathroom-based endurance event. So when someone gushes about drinking straight from a stream because “nature is clean,” feel free to remind them that nature is also full of microscopic freeloaders waiting to set up shop in their gut.
Drank from mountain creeks for decades, never got sick. Gotta make a judgement call with every creek about what might be upstream, but can be done. Also, I've drank from a muddy puddle too, just depends on how desperate you are for water.
You can pick up a lovely grab-bag of parasites from “pure” mountain water — Giardia being the fan favorite — plus the occasional bacteria that turns a weekend hike into a bathroom-based endurance event. So when someone gushes about drinking straight from a stream because “nature is clean,” feel free to remind them that nature is also full of microscopic freeloaders waiting to set up shop in their gut.
ReplyDeleteDrank from mountain creeks for decades, never got sick. Gotta make a judgement call with every creek about what might be upstream, but can be done. Also, I've drank from a muddy puddle too, just depends on how desperate you are for water.
DeleteNothing a couple drops of disinfecting bleach, purification tabs or just plain boiling can't fix. Running water is better than standing.
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