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Water Storage For Newcomers.

Harry Palmer said:
You don't need to boil anywhere in the UK :(
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A may agree with you on high elevated streams with a source spouting up through the ground also Above human habitat. But again it still poses the question is it safe to drink? And a high elevated stream but How far are you willing to travel to make sure no dead animals are in the water at such heights ? In a non survival situation why would you drink straight from the source and risk! Illness? As I said I can understand why in a real survival situation! If the choice is die or be ill and survive....a think we would all agree on the answer to that one lol.

I have to ask harry ( genuinely) for your statement above! Where is the proof;):thumbsup:

To simply say you don’t have to boil water in the uk to consume it safely! Is a dangerous statement to make for an open thread. And I for one would like any new members who is reading this to always boil river,loch,stream water!!!!!
 
On a slightly jocular note... think about what the fish, ducks, swans, water voles, etc. do in the water as well! :)
 
I was at a place called loggerheads just outside Mold last year checking out a cave system there, there is a beautiful clear spring of pure water full of watercress...20 yards downstream there was a dead sheep.:fedup:
 
dosent that just affect the central nervous system, does it affect the meat? how could you tell if it had it?
I mean in a survival context if it was either eat the sheep or starve?
 
You would have to avoid offal, but it can be blood borne (it's a CJD variant) so cooking well is the best protection. Any liver flukes it has may be carriers and in the offal or nearby water.

It's also worth considering the old country adage that animals, particularly sheep go to water to die and are likely to have died of illness if in a watercourse.
 
its sort of the sheep equivalent of BSE isn't it?
if they died in the watercourse then it will effect the quality of the water.
 
Kind of the equivalent. Sheep die more easily of it, but then of course sheep specialise in finding new ways to day as daily hobby ;)

Yes it could well do
 
And don't, of course, forget what is washed in off the land, apart from various sorts of dung, there's insecticides, fertilisers, and whatever else the non-organic farmers put on there!
 
Skyy said:
And don't, of course, forget what is washed in off the land, apart from various sorts of dung, there's insecticides, fertilisers, and whatever else the non-organic farmers put on there!
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yes that why I say treat any water source , except from the mains, as suspicious.
 
Anyway. It’s all good practice boiling water and there’s nothing like the sound of a whistling kettle at your feet when out in the woods or just out anywhere :thumbsup:
 
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