SC - Re: Forwarded Message - EK list - Pennsic
Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Tue Jul 27 07:26:35 PDT 1999
In a message dated 7/27/99 7:31:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Tollhase1 at aol.com writes:
<< So I had planned on bringing dried Gatorade and adding water, Not a good
idea? >>
Personally, I've never had a problem with the water at Cooper's Lake as far
as drinking it, and it's only recently I've used any bottled water there. My
first five years or more I used exclusively Cooper's water. It has a very
high mineral content and smells of sulphur when hot, although I've been told
there's no sulphur in it. It does discolor sitting in the sun in a jug. It
tastes a little wierd, and adding powdered or concentrated drink mixes to it
helps cover the taste. As a very active chirurgeon at Pennsic for about the
last 8 years, I can confidantly state that, in that time, we have never had
an outbreak of water-borne illness other than a day or two of diarhea while
people's systems get used to the different mineral levels. And this only
affects some people. It has never bothered me or my husband.
I know people don't like the water, and that the discoloration looks
suspicious when you are used to municipal water systems. But frankly, I
don't know why everybody gets all bent out of shape about the water. I've
heard people relay stories of "I was sick when I got home, and went to my
doctor. I told him I'd been camping and he said 'it must have been the water
that made me sick'." Unless the doctor tested for water-borne illness, this
is just a speculation, not truth. It could just as easily have been food
poisoning from improperly handling foods in camp.
Brangwayna Morgan
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