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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 438552" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Life Straw will get out organisms, but won't help with chemicals etc. Nor will boiling or other tabs. I would not drink from any dam not specifically designed to supply drinking water. Cattle die in some areas drinking from contaminated dams (e.g. Bethanga), There were old gold smelters that produced white arsenic residue, and piles of this leach into dams. Metal-cyanide compounds can stick around for hundreds of years. Mercury was widely used in Victorian mines, and methyl mercury is awful stuff and can stick around. Stay somewhere that has a tap......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 438552, member: 4386"] Life Straw will get out organisms, but won't help with chemicals etc. Nor will boiling or other tabs. I would not drink from any dam not specifically designed to supply drinking water. Cattle die in some areas drinking from contaminated dams (e.g. Bethanga), There were old gold smelters that produced white arsenic residue, and piles of this leach into dams. Metal-cyanide compounds can stick around for hundreds of years. Mercury was widely used in Victorian mines, and methyl mercury is awful stuff and can stick around. Stay somewhere that has a tap...... [/QUOTE]
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