Posted by Jon on January 23, 2002 at 20:09:51 from 199.128.91.76:
In Reply to: Drinking water posted by d.stevens on January 22, 2002 at 22:35:04:
" . . . not straight out of the lake, but boiled for tea." Peggy? explaining why the water cask became a puncheon of rum, in SA. So the A's also used the lake as their primary source of water. Boiling the water will kill off most/all live biological contaminants, and even now you'll find people (in the corporate sense) who will contend that mining and other such activities don't render water unsafe.