Katadyn bottle... I used it in the Himalayas... you can put any water into it AND use immediately!!!
Katadyn bottle... I used it in the Himalayas... you can put any water into it AND use immediately!!!
I used to sell these. certainly the best pence per litre of most micro filters but they are not light or cheap and need looking after, it is possible to break the ceramic filter if it is dropped heavilyOriginally Posted by Hanneke
Loads of people do this, and it's talked about on here quite a lot. I just wondered if anyone ever got sick from doing it? My father in law has always told me to be careful doing it in case there's a dead sheep or something upstream, that's always stuck with me and made me less likely to do it. I'm just curious if anybody else has similar thoughts or if it's just me.
Anyone?
Some say drink higher up the stream, guess it's just pot luck, drunk from many a stream round Calderdale and never been sick. Lakeland streams are the nicest tasting ones. And any stream first thing in a morning is an excellent hangover cure.
I suppose statistically it can happen. I once heard of someone who picked up version of Scrapie by drinking from a stream. I don't think that would stop me.
I've no problem with it at all. Just make sure you are upstream of any human habitation and do a quick check for animal corpses upstream.
Our domestic water supply is direct from a ground spring and we don't bother treating it. Also the farm where I grew up had its own private, untreated, water supply. Never had any illness. I think many people are becoming too alienated from their environment see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis , the problem is balancing exposure to bacteria etc and the risks they undoubtedly present with being able to develop resistance.
Scrapie? That's the sheep version of BSE and hasn't been known to be transmitted to humans. Sounds like an urban myth to me.
I drink from steams lots- although must admit to only using ones with more than a trickle of what looks like fairly clean and moving water. Got very desperate last weekend on H Fling but waited until found something I was happy with. No matter how careful you never know- drank my fill once and then founf dead sheep 50m upstream- promptly threw up, so perhaps that saved me! Must admit to prefering Scotland and empty places compared to some parts of the Lakes.
A friend did get ill- doctor said if he worked with food he would have had to sign him off for a fortnight so suspect an ecoli related problem.
We've drunk some great water in the Lakes this spring on recces. I was always very cautious in the past but the good streams and springs taste better than council pop!
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