Originally Posted by Ramona Byrd
HAVE city water but would prefer water rushing down unoccupied mountains. From what I read, a large percent of bottled water comes straight from city water, but friends who travel claim that Perrier is best and cleanest. Can't afford much of that, but do enjoy a bottle of it in a restaurant. Wish I could get THAT gushing from my water pipes....
That wonderful, clear-looking water rushing down the mountainside just most-likely will contain Ghiardia, (and that is not spelled right). One of my daughters got the plague from her rambling in the mountains in CO and drinking from the streams. Anywhere there are Elk or Deer, you have the Ghiardia.