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Post by ensign in the red shirt on Mar 12, 2002 9:50:55 GMT -5
Water is never a problem here, obviously (as in "rain"forest), but it isn't treated either so we can get bugs. If they put chlorine in the drinking water it would kill the reef so we drink it neat out of the rainforest.
It has been the dryest "wet"on record but the garden is still green and lush...
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Post by Dr. Jekyl on Mar 12, 2002 10:04:13 GMT -5
You don't treat yoru drinking water? Now that was something I didn't know...
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Post by Christina on Mar 12, 2002 15:21:52 GMT -5
If all those things can live in it, it must be healthy!  (joke) ? |
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Post by Peter_Pevensie on Mar 13, 2002 3:15:52 GMT -5
^^^ That was great! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by ensign in the red shirt on Mar 13, 2002 4:56:40 GMT -5
Yeah, ok, that was funny.
The main bug that we can get out of the drinking water is giardia which causes upset stomachs but you build a resistance to it after a few years. So all the locals drink tap water and terrify all the tourists into spending $2.50 (minimum) on bottled water.
The council is building, after many years deliberation, a micro-filtration plant that will give us the cleanest tap water on the planet. The plant is costing a fortune and taking an age to build but it is cutting-edge technology and the biggest of its' kind in the world. The joke continues. After it is built the water will be so pure as to put to shame all bottled waters available. So the council is going to start bottling it and selling it commercially not only in Port Douglas but to the rest of Australia - and the world! So yáll will still be paying for our water... good scheme eh?
Don't you wish you had a council like ours?
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Post by Holodoc on Mar 13, 2002 9:10:27 GMT -5
I know someone who caught Giardia in Mexico, and was given an antibiotic. She lost the sensation in her toes from the medication. But the alternative was wasting away from dehydration and confusion.
Two years ago this month, I was diagnosed with E Histolitica. I suffered similar symptoms, and had I not gotten treatment, I can't imagine I'd be here today. But, learning from her experience, I went instead to a holistic physician and took an herbal remedy for two months.
How does one become immune to something like that once it's manifested? Allegedly, the Mexicans can drink their water. Is it because of the demographics that they and you are already born with a resistence to these microbes?
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Post by Christina on Mar 13, 2002 15:35:39 GMT -5
Maybe, like a lot of things, you can acquire a degree of immunity from your mother's milk in the months immediately after birth?
Another reason why 'natural' breast feeding is so important...
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Post by ensign in the red shirt on Mar 14, 2002 6:10:16 GMT -5
Nah, it's the same as a vaccination - they give you a little bit of the desease and your body builds up immunities. I find tha twhen I am back in "civilization" for a bit I lose the immunity.
But the situation in Mexico is different in as much as the plumbing there is not up to scratch. There are possibilities for the drinking water to be contaminated not only at the source (like ours) but also during delivery due to broken supply pipes. Both ground water and often soiled water leeches into the drinking supply and bring the more exotic bugs with them.
In any event, I remember that in the UK the drinking water pipes loose 40% or something of their supply meaning that there are a massive amounts of leaks and also that the water in London had already been drunk 7 times before it even reaches the city... That has always boggled my mind!
BTW, mother's milk is important! Now if only my baby would wean itself off maybe I could have some...
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