At 05:17 PM 01/25/2000 -0800, Rob MacDonald wrote: >How hard can it be to find a reasonably clear stream, not downstream of >someone's outhouse or sewage outfall, to use as a source for your filter? In California, more-or-less impossible. Our small rivers are dry most of the year and the big ones ... drink at your own risk. I carry bottled water on my kayak. >I haven't heard that human viruses were being spread by this means. I hope not! Unfortunately the "big 3" virus diseases spread through polluted drinking water are cholera, typhus, and listeria. >Rob. (In Terrace, BC, where we can still drink the water straight off the >hillside, although we probably shouldn't.) jerry. In sunny but not unpolluted California. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 25 2000 - 17:48:58 PST
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