Originally Posted by
FlyWorld
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1036110025940498271
"The results of our water-quality snapshot: a long list of microscopic life you don't want to drink, from Salmonella and Staphylococcus to tiny insect eggs. Worse, contamination was the rule, not the exception: Almost all of the bacteria levels were tens, sometimes hundreds, of times above U.S. government limits. "This water is not potable by any means," says Donald Hendrickson, the director of Hoosier Microbiology Laboratories in Muncie, Ind., which tested our samples."
sidebar we have an epidemic of kids with the most ridiculous allergies (peanuts, soy, lactose) mostly because they were never exposed to the "long list of microscopic life you don't want to drink ... (such as) tiny insect eggs"
just because it's not clean doesn't mean it's not safe to drink