Drinking Campground Water...
My wife and are are arguing about making coffee with campground water. I've always used a water filter on our White Hose, but my wife has never tasted campground water, she buys gallons of water. ...
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ppine wrote:
How did our society become so fastidious that "campground water" is not suitable for drinking? It is some of the best water in the mountains.
My Dad used to have a ranch in Arizona. Work with people that cowboy for a living, and you learn to drink out of stock tanks and cattle tracks.
I'm not "fastidious" - but DO know that wells can be contaminated by things unseen. A lot of areas are starting to test for PFAS, for example (which may have been in the water supply for decades). Regarding drinking out of stock tanks: yes, humans can deal with water contaminated with pathogens if they do it on a regular basis. But MOST of us in the "first world" have become accustomed to safe water sources, so a swallow of pathogen-laced water will lead to dire results....
