Obviously I know all this . I have drunk suspect and unclean water my whole 65 years, and never had a problem. I lived in Malaysia for 5 years and drank the local water (not that it is any worse there than anywhere else, I guess). I of course know that there is a risk in drinking/eating anything. I was more concerned about the amount of risk. Surely if you are drinking from a mountain stream in say, Green Mountain, Queensland, where there is nothing at all up stream, then the risk is virtually non-existent. Probably safer than drinking tap water in Brisbane.neilmny wrote:Bottled water doesn't come out of the ground and into the bottle.
Plenty of people get away with drinking straight from streams but if you do get hit by Giardia or some other bug out in the sticks you will be in deep poop....probably your own!
Giardia and such like is invisible to the naked eye and has nothing to do with water "colour".
I agree and do the same with the hand sanitizer and the soap. I don't wash/shave when I go car camping, so am not going to start now I am hiking/camping.neilmny wrote:I filter my water (as a young bloke I just drank straight from a stream) and these days use hand cleanser after a bog to save the water I'm carrying.
I don't use soap to wash anything in or near a stream.
GPSGuided wrote:Water purification and filtering has made a massive difference to public health in our history and currently out in third world countries. Draw your own lesson, especially when you have the options.
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Stroller wrote:In Australia, our rivers and creeks are generally clean.
Yeah, I guess so. I just assumed that the hiking community was a bit better than that. After all, the 'entry cost' to get into bush walking is not trivial. And I don't mean just the monetary cost, I mean the effort you need to make to get to these places is often substantial.GPSGuided wrote:When there's a law, training, testing, licence and penalties, drivers in society still drink and drive, run red lights, run into other vehicles etc. How well do you think the 100m bush guideline gets followed?
Xplora wrote:My partner is very sensitive to water giardia while other people are not (like me). These protozoa are carried by most native animals and where do they live and poop?
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