Do you filter drinking water.....?

Sourdough · #1 12/30/11, 09:45 PM

Do you filter water from a creek, or just drink it un-filtered.....????

birdman1 · #2 12/30/11, 10:06 PM

I have a spring and gravity feed my water to the cabin ,a creek runs through ou place clear & cold I water the live stock and garden with this water the stream goes through cattle pasture ,
birds . raccons ,woods , bridges . thier is to many things up stream to let me drink from it .

Sourdough · #3 12/30/11, 10:28 PM

42 years in Alaska, and I have never filtered water. Clear, cold, and lots of it.....

http://www.chugachoutdoorcenter.com/...le_rafting.htm (Note: Not my business)

Bearfootfarm · #4 12/31/11, 02:00 AM

It's pretty risky to drink right from a creek if there might be beavers in the water:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001333/

Quote:

Giardiasis is an infection of the small intestine caused by a microscopic organism (protozoa), Giardia lamblia.

Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Giardiasis outbreaks can occur in communities in both developed and developing countries where water supplies become contaminated with raw sewage.

It can be contracted by drinking water from lakes or streams where water-dwelling animals such as beavers and muskrats, or domestic animals such as sheep, have caused contamination. It is also spread by direct person-to-person contact, which has caused outbreaks in institutions such as day care centers.

Micheal · #5 12/31/11, 08:05 AM

Of the 2 streams that flow through my property I'd say a resounding NO! - to drinking it filtered or not........ well maybe if'n it was boiled for 10-15 minutes.
But in turn I've been in places in the ADK mts that yea I've drunk from a stream; even used my hand as a cup.....
Guess it would depend on what you believe to be "up-stream" from where you are.

**alleyyooper** · #6 12/31/11, 08:43 AM

In 2004 my wife got very sick. Doctor said it might have been soime thing in our water even though test found nothing.
I nistalled a big whole house filter, reverese osomisi system with two filters and the membrain and a drinking water filter system which has two filters.
The wife soon got better after I did all that.
We do not drink water fromn the creek, and would not buy drinking water. We only drink our filtered water fill our own bottles and jugs with our water if traveling too.

Al

Gianni · #7 01/03/12, 01:36 PM

Cattle in the hills and beaver dams in a lot of streams, they all get filtered or boiled. THe only exception is if I am at the spring.