Simple solution; do what millions of people throughout history have done. Dig a well.


TheKing --- Yes, I'm at my uncle's place right now. And for a mere $549,000 CDN someone is soon going to score one hell of a lake home for themselves.

Sure, we've got a cabin in the mountains and it has a well, I know how it works. I thought we were talking about drinking straight out of a lake, different thing entirely.

Can someone ban this delusional fuck.

I saw the pictures of it and I think it will not be on the market for long.

Pigshit.

You have to realize that not all lakes are cut from the same cloth. The ecosystem on this lake is very different from a lot of others in the world, especially those in N America. For one thing it's in the heart of the Canadian Shield, among thousands of lakes that were glacier formed and grinded out of rock. Then there's the item I already mentioned, about this being a pristine lake at the top of the water table in the region, and believe me this region is massive. Size of the lake matters as well, and Nym Lake is quite large. A little mouse shit here or there near the shore isn't going to taint the entire lake, more like a few drops of it.

I'd say aside maybe from the dog days of August when there's a lot of sediment hanging in the water with little to no undercurrents, you could definitely take a gulp of water out of this lake and feel good about it. I can think of only a couple of pristine lakes in central Canada that come close to this one, Shoal lake being one, which incidentally is the lake that fed the city of Winnipeg most of it's water supply for many decades.

I'm not saying you're wrong in what you're saying, I'm just saying you might not want to paint all lakes and ecosystems with the same brush.

He's already got an offer from some local people for $450K. Tempting, but he's letting me run with the website for a while to see what other bites we can get.

You're right though, the place is quite fabulous.

So, are you

a) genuinely bat shit mental
b) the best troll ever

?

Jeez I would never ever drink unfiltered or untreated water while out in the wilderness, unless I was in some type of survival scenario. Better safe than sorry, if you can help it right? I just got these drops called aquamira for backpacking. Better than iodine because it covers more pathogens, better than most filters because even iodine prevents more things than most filters! Also it doesn't taste like anything, and it only takes 15-30 minutes to treat the water.

Yup, I've spent plenty of time at high mountain lakes at over 8000ft where there were no human habitations for 30+ miles, and the water is fed from brand-new snowmelt right at the source. It does not get much purer than that. You can probably drink from such places a hundred times or more with no problem, but the one time a marmot sharts somewhere and you pick up a trace organism from that - well, the resulting effects will make you reconsider like me! But sometimes we all gotta learn the hard way I guess.

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