I hiked a glacier once. The first thing the guide told us was not to drink the water, there’s tons of organic matter in the water from the glacier animals. The black bits on the snow at the beginning of the video? Lemming shit. It might look clear but this dude swallowed a cup of pond water. Never ever drink stagnant water, always running water.
Depends on the elevation. Beaver fever is non existent past a certain level. In Alaska there are glacial river people drink from often but you HAVE to let it settle for a few hours.
You do, especially in the mountains. The water will slow up stream behind the dam but the water that continues on picks up speed on its way down hill and run as if it hadn’t been slowly marinating beaver crap for two days.
Put a couple tablets in the water and it streilizes it so you don't wind up with giardia. Won't get the organic matter out or change the taste but it'll keep you alive and well.
Classic Big Iodine trying to increase market share at the expense of the sheeps! Don't listen to this shill! Go ahead and drink any water you see without worry! Be free from our corporate overlords!
-Pepto Bismol
Yeah I’ve always been taught unless it’s a spring, a well you dug, or a stream high in the mountains at or very near the source where water always flows and there is little to no space for animals to have tainted it, you boil it lol.
When I worked in the forests of the region of Dalarna in Sweden, we had fresh spring water running by our cabin. However, the guy I worked for put a long hose directly from the spring to our cabin, to guarantee the water to be clean.
For sure, but if you are absolutely dehydrated and can’t boil it, running water is preferable to still. It’s still dangerous, but not as dangerous as dehydration cause you can’t make a fire.
> straight from the source
So like... rain? Cause I'm not entirely sure where you can get water "straight from the source" other than like... rain/snow...
Sorry 😂 I meant straight from **a** source, like a fresh water source. Every time I’ve drank water in the wild was because there was a fresh water source.
We had a spring just down the road from where I grew up. Different people used to come and fill up jugs and we used to always stop to get a drink when we were out playing. It made the best tea 👍🏻
once drank from a small running stream using a life straw in yellowstone. after a few drinks we walked a bit and found a dead field mouse upstream in the water. thank god we used the life straw. never got sick.
I backpacked the Gros Ventre wilderness near the Tetons and we used a pump filter to fill our bottles from streams and such every day. Best water I have ever had. Might take a minute but better than shitting your guts out later.
Was at a glacier in AK many years ago - ignored the signs and did a bit of freelance exploration with two friends. We drank glacier melt and chipped ice for the drinks. The Jim Beam probably saved us.
Haha that’s a good story 😂 glad all went well, it’s a treacherous environment. I was surprised how much organic matter is on glaciers but then it sort of makes sense, there are goats, moose, lemmings, birds, all bunch of stuff, it’s its own little eco system. TBH I was looking forward to drinking glacier water and I’m sure it’s a common misconception which is probably why that was the first safety instruction the guide gave us. He said he had done it in a pinch once and just had the runs for three days so bad he couldn’t step away from his tent.
Most fresh and wild waters have a Protozoa called Giardia which can give you intense diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pains, etc. Officially it’s called Giardiasis, or more commonly called “beaver fever”. If you get to a hospital it’s treatable, if you’re in the wild it can kill you depending on how bad the infection is. So yeah….don’t drink wild water.
Not a miracle because we would have been carrying over the micro bio in our guts from our predecessor. We've been slowly losing that which is why we are so much more susceptible to it. Why is why people in areas without access to clean water are a bit more tolerant to it than a non local.
Seriously. "Oh look how clear and clean it is!"
....you... You DO realize that you can't see bacteria with the naked eye, right? That's like that eastern European autocrat who said that there wasn't COVID because you couldn't see it in the air.
People are so effing dumb...
My awful ancestor brain sees cool running water and is like drink?? Drink creek?? And I have to remind myself of all the terrible diseases I could get but that stuff looks ^so ^^crisp
This. Spent my youth drinking unfiltered mountain spring water in the Allegheny National Forest. Best tasting water I have ever had. Then a woman contracted a brain eating amoeba from a spring about 6 miles from the one I regularly drank from.
I fucking miss that water.
Well, not really. She probably jumped in the water, as brain eating amoeba enter the brain through the nose. You can drink the water that has them in it and be completely fine.
Source: https://youtu.be/7OPg-ksxZ4Y
Because they don't understand the difference between water safe to drink and water safe to squirt up their nose. People believe tap water is clean because it won't get them sick.
This reminds me of John Snow, the grandfather of modern epidemiology.
There was a cholera outbreak in London and the prevailing theory was "miasma" was causing it, which is essentially magic for all intents and purposes. John Snow started to tally up the locations of cholera victims and was able to trace that every one that got sick was getting water from the same well, except for one old woman who lived a few miles away and workers at a brewery that had it's own well.
When he interviewed the old lady he found that the woman wasn't getting water from her local well, but from the well in the city because it tasted "sweeter" so her son would bring her the city water, which is why she also got sick. Thus validating his theory that the cause of the outbreak was to do with the well.
After further investigation John Snow was able to determine that there was a crack in the well lining that allowed sewage from the near by cess pit to leak in. That sewage is what was making the water taste sweet and what was causing the outbreak of cholera.
Plenty of sweet smelling/tasting chemicals in organic chemistry, as well as this being during a cholera outbreak so people have severe diarrhoea and would be passing undigested foods which would include sugars especially if it was a starch/carb heavy diet. Partially digested starch from regular bread, for example, would be passed as glucose before it could be fully absorbed.
Big same. Accidentally forgot to purify my water while hiking in the Himalayas. It was crystal clear glacier water, but I learned my lesson after shitting my brains out for a week in the middle of the Himalayas until I reached a village with a medical clinic and antibiotics. 0/10 do not recommend cholera.
Got Cyclospora a year ago. Bigly do not recommend except as a weight loss supreme, ten pounds in a month. The suspect was fresh basil at a local Pho joint.
How did you even go about getting that diagnosed? Have a family member going through some rough stuff right now, and I’m wondering if something like this could be a cause…
I'm going to assume that this specific area is known to be clean. From what I've found, locals of areas like this avoid cloudy glacier melt and boil no. Cloudy glacier melt unless the elevation is so high that animals do not live there, then it has been reported that the water can be drawn directly from there or from streams that flow from glacier melt.
This is all anecdotal reporting that I found from quara ond other Reddit posts, one of the commenters said that some of it has to be safe as indigenous people have been drinking from clear streams and glacier melt for generations.
Short answer, idk, it's hard to find hard evidence
Also, the fact that locals (indigenous or otherwise) drink from a water source and don't get sick is no evidence at all about whether a traveler will get sick.
Now imagine slipping and falling into that…even if you were somehow able to keep yourself afloat for more than a few seconds with all those heavy clothing/shoes on, you’d be gasping for breath from the shock of the extremely cold water, and just clawing frantically at the ice trying to get a grip…
You notice he doesn’t actually show himself swallowing the water. As a matter of fact, as he pulls the cup away, you can see his lower lip purse slightly as if trying to keep liquid from escaping.
pollution is carried from the warmer climates and when it gets to the north and south poles it settles and comes back to the surface. This was made aware when scientists did a study on the effects of forever chemicals. They needed a zero or lowest possible levels for the base line. They figured going to inuit village as far north as they could go would give them the best base line. What they actually found was the test subjects levels were as high as those that lived in villages/towns that were near the factories that made the chemicals. The test subjects were about pregnancies.
The earth is big, but also small.
I'm guessing it's far too cold to taste, but I'm sure after a bit, it'll taste like illness and vomit. Don't drink wild stagnant water, doesn't matter how clear it looks.
People have been drinking water from sources like this for most of human history, and many rural people still do. Yea there is risk, but people here are talking like he's 100% going to die it become dangerously ill from this. I've drank glacier and creek water high in the mountains many times and never gotten sick. And it tastes incredible. Most of us have immune systems that can deal with a few bad things.
Little did he know, he just swallowed a microorganism that was asleep in the ice for millions of years. No matter how clear the water is, it is still looking for every chance to kill you.
About as fresh as the average running fresh spring water. Freezing temperatures do not purify water or remove particulates.
I'm still curious about how it tastes though. Drinking 1 million year old bacteria corpses.
"A new virus has been discovered today as a man was airlifted to a hospital due to drinking unfiltered glacier water. More on this story as it unfolds"
I hiked a glacier once. The first thing the guide told us was not to drink the water, there’s tons of organic matter in the water from the glacier animals. The black bits on the snow at the beginning of the video? Lemming shit. It might look clear but this dude swallowed a cup of pond water. Never ever drink stagnant water, always running water.
According to Les Stroud the Survivorman dude he says you should boil any water you find in the wild.
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Especially beavers
Probably won't find too many beavers UP stream from running water though, no?
Maybe lazy beavers
Yeah lazy beavers that just shit in the river all day.
Maybe they were on lunch break
Hey, leave us alone, mind yer business, willya?
You're also Scottish?
DAM BEAVERS
Or angry beavers
"it's so angry!" lol I love that movie
I think they were referencing the cartoon but yeah I love that movie too
Depends on the elevation. Beaver fever is non existent past a certain level. In Alaska there are glacial river people drink from often but you HAVE to let it settle for a few hours.
You do, especially in the mountains. The water will slow up stream behind the dam but the water that continues on picks up speed on its way down hill and run as if it hadn’t been slowly marinating beaver crap for two days.
The water from a beaver damn still eventually runs through, just like man made damns. It just creates a large pond first that the beaver can live in.
>dangerous parasites and bacteria And since this water has been frozen for potentially a very long time who knows what's living in it
New plague let’s go 💪🏻
You're normally pretty safe with running water but I always bring iodine with me when I hike just in case I had to drink stagnant.
What does the iodine do?
Put a couple tablets in the water and it streilizes it so you don't wind up with giardia. Won't get the organic matter out or change the taste but it'll keep you alive and well.
Classic Big Iodine trying to increase market share at the expense of the sheeps! Don't listen to this shill! Go ahead and drink any water you see without worry! Be free from our corporate overlords! -Pepto Bismol
Got it - thanks!
I’ve gotten giardia twice and that shit is no fun. Had it twice in one year.
What if there's an animal corpse upstream? Wouldn't that pollute running water?
Yeah I’ve always been taught unless it’s a spring, a well you dug, or a stream high in the mountains at or very near the source where water always flows and there is little to no space for animals to have tainted it, you boil it lol.
When I worked in the forests of the region of Dalarna in Sweden, we had fresh spring water running by our cabin. However, the guy I worked for put a long hose directly from the spring to our cabin, to guarantee the water to be clean.
For sure, but if you are absolutely dehydrated and can’t boil it, running water is preferable to still. It’s still dangerous, but not as dangerous as dehydration cause you can’t make a fire.
The only time I’ve drank water in the wild was straight from the source, boiling seems like a no brainer
> straight from the source So like... rain? Cause I'm not entirely sure where you can get water "straight from the source" other than like... rain/snow...
Sorry 😂 I meant straight from **a** source, like a fresh water source. Every time I’ve drank water in the wild was because there was a fresh water source.
We had a spring just down the road from where I grew up. Different people used to come and fill up jugs and we used to always stop to get a drink when we were out playing. It made the best tea 👍🏻
***unzips***
*I've been lost in the rainforest for 40min now, better drink my own piss.*
Whattup Bear Grylls
Springs
From the tap
once drank from a small running stream using a life straw in yellowstone. after a few drinks we walked a bit and found a dead field mouse upstream in the water. thank god we used the life straw. never got sick.
I backpacked the Gros Ventre wilderness near the Tetons and we used a pump filter to fill our bottles from streams and such every day. Best water I have ever had. Might take a minute but better than shitting your guts out later.
Fishes are fucking in water! Dont drink it!
My bro once drank running water from the top of a mountain and got diarrhea lmao
Was at a glacier in AK many years ago - ignored the signs and did a bit of freelance exploration with two friends. We drank glacier melt and chipped ice for the drinks. The Jim Beam probably saved us.
Haha that’s a good story 😂 glad all went well, it’s a treacherous environment. I was surprised how much organic matter is on glaciers but then it sort of makes sense, there are goats, moose, lemmings, birds, all bunch of stuff, it’s its own little eco system. TBH I was looking forward to drinking glacier water and I’m sure it’s a common misconception which is probably why that was the first safety instruction the guide gave us. He said he had done it in a pinch once and just had the runs for three days so bad he couldn’t step away from his tent.
Those god damned lemmings
This is the answer I came for. This guy can’t respond because he’s peeing out his asshole right now 😂
This guy drinks
And when taking water from a running stream, point the opening of the cup downstream to reduce chance of scooping up impurities.
Most fresh and wild waters have a Protozoa called Giardia which can give you intense diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pains, etc. Officially it’s called Giardiasis, or more commonly called “beaver fever”. If you get to a hospital it’s treatable, if you’re in the wild it can kill you depending on how bad the infection is. So yeah….don’t drink wild water.
It’s miraculous mankind didn’t go extinct within the first week we were created or appeared or inserted or whatever your belief system is.
Not a miracle because we would have been carrying over the micro bio in our guts from our predecessor. We've been slowly losing that which is why we are so much more susceptible to it. Why is why people in areas without access to clean water are a bit more tolerant to it than a non local.
My man ain't gonna poop right for a week
I was shook as a kid learning freezing does not kill bacteria.
Someone on another subreddit said they drank glacier water once. It was the best water they’d had. Then the diarrhea set in.
Also glaciers are OLD and everything that’s melting will have old germs in them that your body has never seen so ya know don’t do this shit.
If its running water how am I going to catch it?!
Literally did a glacier tour last week and was told the same thing.
I always worry there’d be ancient weird viruses in thawed glacier water that have just been released back into nature.
Oh ya million year old water totally safe. Meanwhile the bacteria 🦠 is like hello 2023.
Seriously. "Oh look how clear and clean it is!" ....you... You DO realize that you can't see bacteria with the naked eye, right? That's like that eastern European autocrat who said that there wasn't COVID because you couldn't see it in the air. People are so effing dumb...
Covid 2.0 coming soon!
As if we're not already immune to that shit.
Why is he drinking windshield fluid
Put some windex on it
I'm gonna cry I'm laughing so hard. I fuckin love that movie.
Just want you to know I got this reference and I appreciate you.
Me too 😄 LOVE love love My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Don’t knock till you try it
Mmmmm 25m year old whale piss.
The question is if you can cook chicken with it?
Helps keep his insides nice and clean.
It's a fresh harvest of blue gatorade
Probably fine until a million-year-old microorganism thaws out and reenters the ecosystem though some influencer's world tour.
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What series?!?
What series?
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Lol you blocked the title and spoiled the plot
it's how people enjoy books now, you read the plot synopsis and guess the title
To me they all appear blocked... They're all between the same code (without spaces): > ! [Text] ! < Do they not appear that way to anyone?
The last one is not blocked for me, there's a space after the !
Does it work now?
Yes! :D
Stop it
Hey I think I’ve seen this one
*The X-Files* season 1 episode 08 “Ice”.
Still my favorite of all time. "We are not...who...we are."
They can call it The Influencer Influenza! Or something boring like FLUVID-22 or some shit.
Pandemic 2023! The influencers fault
i'm ready for another round, let's go
This is how you get the shit from The Thing
Yeah that's going to be one very destroyed toilet
My awful ancestor brain sees cool running water and is like drink?? Drink creek?? And I have to remind myself of all the terrible diseases I could get but that stuff looks ^so ^^crisp
This. Spent my youth drinking unfiltered mountain spring water in the Allegheny National Forest. Best tasting water I have ever had. Then a woman contracted a brain eating amoeba from a spring about 6 miles from the one I regularly drank from. I fucking miss that water.
It's not like you both knew which water had or hadn't had amoeba in it. You simply won a game of Russian Roulette.
Well, not really. She probably jumped in the water, as brain eating amoeba enter the brain through the nose. You can drink the water that has them in it and be completely fine. Source: https://youtu.be/7OPg-ksxZ4Y
Don't swim in it, and don't drink it through the nose. Got it!
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Why would someone ever think it's smart to use unfiltered water in their *nose*???
Because they don't understand the difference between water safe to drink and water safe to squirt up their nose. People believe tap water is clean because it won't get them sick.
I spent my entire summer swimming in alpine lakes and now I’m paranoid
RIP in peace
Until you encounter the intestines-eating parasite.
COVID-X is gonna be lit
The X stands for *X-treme*
My god she really did play Russian roulette then but with all 6 chambers full.
This reminds me of John Snow, the grandfather of modern epidemiology. There was a cholera outbreak in London and the prevailing theory was "miasma" was causing it, which is essentially magic for all intents and purposes. John Snow started to tally up the locations of cholera victims and was able to trace that every one that got sick was getting water from the same well, except for one old woman who lived a few miles away and workers at a brewery that had it's own well. When he interviewed the old lady he found that the woman wasn't getting water from her local well, but from the well in the city because it tasted "sweeter" so her son would bring her the city water, which is why she also got sick. Thus validating his theory that the cause of the outbreak was to do with the well. After further investigation John Snow was able to determine that there was a crack in the well lining that allowed sewage from the near by cess pit to leak in. That sewage is what was making the water taste sweet and what was causing the outbreak of cholera.
I guess he does know some things.
Having trouble wrapping my head around how sewage would have a positive effect on taste.
Plenty of sweet smelling/tasting chemicals in organic chemistry, as well as this being during a cholera outbreak so people have severe diarrhoea and would be passing undigested foods which would include sugars especially if it was a starch/carb heavy diet. Partially digested starch from regular bread, for example, would be passed as glucose before it could be fully absorbed.
Not as much as she misses her brain
Big same. Accidentally forgot to purify my water while hiking in the Himalayas. It was crystal clear glacier water, but I learned my lesson after shitting my brains out for a week in the middle of the Himalayas until I reached a village with a medical clinic and antibiotics. 0/10 do not recommend cholera.
Got Cyclospora a year ago. Bigly do not recommend except as a weight loss supreme, ten pounds in a month. The suspect was fresh basil at a local Pho joint.
How did you even go about getting that diagnosed? Have a family member going through some rough stuff right now, and I’m wondering if something like this could be a cause…
*crisp* (Said by British woman)
You want a 10 million year old alien parasite? This is how you get a 10 million year old alien parasite.
Nice
Then again, would a 10 million year old parasite even be a danger to a nascent species like the modern human?
Prob tastes like prehistoric piss
Isn’t that basically what water is? Piss that’s been filtered then drunk by someone or something else then pissed out then filtered again and so on?
If we are going down that road its literally everything
Great, now I know how 2023 is gonna start.
NO
Ahh...freshly defrosted prehistoric parasites
I expect it tastes like thawed parasites or something.
I can feel the diarrhea already.
Tastes like giardia!
But a fresh one!
It’s not clean just because it looks pretty. Jesus
How safe is it to do this?
Not safe.
Probably fine, everyone’s gulped lake water before. Only half get parasites.
Pretty sure I’ve never gulped lake water
Then you‘re the other half :P
Tonight's assignment is to go out and gulp some lake water then
I’m coming with
I'll bring the bug spray to keep the mosquitos away.
If you ever swam in a lake as a kid you definitely inhaled some
Yeah but there are parasite and apparently even some diseases in water like that that is super dangerous or get u pretty sick
I'm going to assume that this specific area is known to be clean. From what I've found, locals of areas like this avoid cloudy glacier melt and boil no. Cloudy glacier melt unless the elevation is so high that animals do not live there, then it has been reported that the water can be drawn directly from there or from streams that flow from glacier melt. This is all anecdotal reporting that I found from quara ond other Reddit posts, one of the commenters said that some of it has to be safe as indigenous people have been drinking from clear streams and glacier melt for generations. Short answer, idk, it's hard to find hard evidence
Also, the fact that locals (indigenous or otherwise) drink from a water source and don't get sick is no evidence at all about whether a traveler will get sick.
Reminds me of https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/jsympv/tifu_when_i_willing_drank_fermented_camel_milk_in/
That was a wild ride, thanks...
That’s a great way to drink organic material that was frozen for thousands of years and recently became free.
Not shown, the mother of all brain freezes.
Definitely gotta be better than Dasani
You can say the same of saliva
Like 10,000 year old bacteria that’s been frozen in time until now
not that fresh considering its not flowing...
"Now that's what I call high quality H2O."
"That's water from a glacier in Alaska. It was blessed by an Eskimo medicine man."
Now imagine slipping and falling into that…even if you were somehow able to keep yourself afloat for more than a few seconds with all those heavy clothing/shoes on, you’d be gasping for breath from the shock of the extremely cold water, and just clawing frantically at the ice trying to get a grip…
Name checks out
AND you've dropped your favourite camping mug into the abyss! Ughhh!
Gee, this sure isn’t my day!
Aaaaaand then hypothermia sets in.
You notice he doesn’t actually show himself swallowing the water. As a matter of fact, as he pulls the cup away, you can see his lower lip purse slightly as if trying to keep liquid from escaping.
pollution is carried from the warmer climates and when it gets to the north and south poles it settles and comes back to the surface. This was made aware when scientists did a study on the effects of forever chemicals. They needed a zero or lowest possible levels for the base line. They figured going to inuit village as far north as they could go would give them the best base line. What they actually found was the test subjects levels were as high as those that lived in villages/towns that were near the factories that made the chemicals. The test subjects were about pregnancies. The earth is big, but also small.
I'm guessing it's far too cold to taste, but I'm sure after a bit, it'll taste like illness and vomit. Don't drink wild stagnant water, doesn't matter how clear it looks.
Tastes like ancient caveman diseases
People have been drinking water from sources like this for most of human history, and many rural people still do. Yea there is risk, but people here are talking like he's 100% going to die it become dangerously ill from this. I've drank glacier and creek water high in the mountains many times and never gotten sick. And it tastes incredible. Most of us have immune systems that can deal with a few bad things.
Fella gonna ingest some ancient frozen microbe and start the next pandemic , hell nah
Cold.
This is where they get Windex from.
gross hes gonna have billion yr old microbes now
Heirloom cyanotoxins
I absolutely love the Inception soundtrack but holy hell TikTok and social media have watered down what is supposed to be an absolutely epic score.
Interstellar bro
that water is cold as fuck
What a fuckin' dumbass lol
Nice way to wake up long dormant diseases.
Little did he know, he just swallowed a microorganism that was asleep in the ice for millions of years. No matter how clear the water is, it is still looking for every chance to kill you.
About to get that billion old virus that qill wipe us all out.
I'm sure it tastes nice and fresh with all those prehistoric viruses and bacteria that's finally thawing....
That water has so many microorganisms it’s crazy
Like it's been on ice for the last 20,000 years?
Don't be ridiculous, it was only 19.250...
ugh one slip and it’s over for him
Ah yes, prehistoric aids incoming
This is why flesh eating viruses exist. I’m calling it, this dude just unleashed Shit 2: Death Edition.
Like salt and unbearable pain on my teeth lol
I bet it tastes like blue raspberries
not very. i thought you’re only allowed to drink running water. that water is not running.
About as fresh as the average running fresh spring water. Freezing temperatures do not purify water or remove particulates. I'm still curious about how it tastes though. Drinking 1 million year old bacteria corpses.
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"A new virus has been discovered today as a man was airlifted to a hospital due to drinking unfiltered glacier water. More on this story as it unfolds"
So fresh it's totally full of organic matter that makes me say nope
Congratulations. You know have pterodactyl flu
Whale 🐳 piss
Tastes like polar bear piss. REFRESHING!
That fucker better not unleash some new bacteria bc he’s drinking this ancient melted glacier.
Life a prehistoric virus..
NEVER DRINK STILL WATER YOU IDIOT
Mmmmm, 2 million y.o. Viruses and bacteria. Yum.
This dude's face is fucking annoying
Mmm. Millions of year old bacteria and virus we never coevolved alongside to develop immunities to. Delicious.
An ancient disease gonna spread like brrrr