SC - Re: Forwarded Message - EK list - Pennsic

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

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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