"AL_n" wrote in
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"Charlie Pridham" wrote in
news:9rp2o3Fgu4U1 @mid.individual.net:

the OP wanted to know how to make
it safe to drink rain water from a butt, which in my view is either
by boiling or a UV filter but I think they may have lost interest
with the thread as it got sidetracked!

Still somewhat interested in the thread. Having read the helpful
comments, I think I have a much better grasp of the (fairly low) risks
involved in drinking rainwater-butt water. If the water becomes too
cruddy-looking with too many low-life squatters swimming around, I'll
probably boil it. Then I won't have nightmares about Alien IV bursting
out of my gut at some inconvenient moment. :-)

Al


PS..
And I am thinking of buying a ceramic 0.5 micron ceramic water filter which
will give me about a gallon of clean water to hand - which is more than
enough for my needs. Although the air in my part of the country is very
clean, my gutters still accumulate some dirty sediment, which is not
something I'd like to be ingesting - even in small amounts.

Al