Water Works?

[Voosh]

Not health/medical advice: I drink that pure water all the time and I'm still clicking on the keyboard.

CHECK WITH YOUR DOC'S before going anywhere. I recall that there were some good references for further resources here. Bring a good water filter as a backup. It's rare. But, the bugs can get you. Stay safe. But not over, loony, safe. IMHO.

 

[GramChop]

i'm not sure if i've shared this before, but i came home from my first trip in 1997 with an amoeba! not sure how i got it, but let me tell you....it was a miserable 5 hospitalized days waiting for it to pass! it was speculated that it entered via the water so.....i DO NOT drink the water!

 

[Rosemary]

Stick to the Pink Drinks, Missy! Safety first.

 

[GramChop]

you got that right, rosemary!

 

[elgreaux]

We boil both cistern and city water for cooking and have never had a problem....

 

[fins85258]

A fun Beach read is a book entitled "A Trip To The Beach" about Bob & Melinda Blanchard starting a restaurant in Anguilla. It is suppose to be one of the best restaurants on the island as well as the caribe. Anyway, there was an interesting part in it about the "Island Guy" that drops by when they got the cistern filled and put 3 or 4 little fish in it to keep it clean and tiddy as it were. But it seems to me that since clorine or clorine bleach can be used for small quanties it would be easy enough to treat you cistern the same as a swimming pool with liquid or dry clorine, muriatic acid and a swimming pool test kit. In order to treat all water the main supply water to the house would need to go into the cistern first and then the cistern supply the entire house. I don't think it works that way in most of the homes though. I think where we stayed the shower and possibly the toilet and garden hose were on the cistern and the lavs on the public water system.

http://www.blanchardsrestaurant.com/books.htm

 

[Petri]

Don't spoil your vacation or trips by thinking too much. Just use common sense.

Even if you play safe, you never know what your favourite restaurant does or what happens during that swim in the ocean.

 

[amyb]

Enjoyed that book a lot. When we visited BLANCHARD'S the entire staff autogarphed our copy. They brought it in to the kitchen and even the busboys signed! A fun thing to do and a nice memory.

 

[Voosh]

Don't spoil your vacation or trips by thinking too much. Just use common sense.

Even if you play safe, you never know what your favourite restaurant does or what happens during that swim in the ocean.

Exactly.

If I worried about all the possibilities, I'd never leave the house!

Our basic "travel meds" include immodium, over-the-counter "anti-barf" stuff, antibiotic ointment, a good decongestant, Benadryl, aspirin, EpiPen and a couple Z-packs (prescription antibiotic.)

 

[MIke R]

Their second book:

Live What You Love - Notes from an Unusual Life


is better

 

[MIke R]

Don't spoil your vacation or trips by thinking too much. Just use common sense.

Even if you play safe, you never know what your favourite restaurant does or what happens during that swim in the ocean.

Exactly.

If I worried about all the possibilities, I'd never leave the house!

Our basic "travel meds" include immodium, over-the-counter "anti-barf" stuff, antibiotic ointment, aspirin, EpiPen and a couple Z-packs (prescription antibiotic.)

there is NO comparing what bacteria and dangerous critters to our GI Tracts live in salt water to what lives fresh water...none


being on a good daily regiment of ProBiotics goes a long way in terms of prevention....or get a script for Bactrim f you're that worried about it...it's what I took whenever I had boat business in Mexico......there is no more dangerous environment to human beings, in terms of bacteria and critters, than standing untreated fresh water in the tropics..this according to my wife who studied all that boring stuff in college..

so again...knowing that?..why in the world would anyone push their luck with vacation time???

just doesn't make sense to me...


take your normal rational precautions and you have one less thing to think about..

 

[Petri]

.. wrt bacteria and all those things, just replace the ocean with the villa's jacuzzi and pool.

 

[Voosh]

Bactrim is OK. We use "Z-Packs" because they seem to cover a wider spectrum. They are worthless, IMHO, for really treating a problem. They just keep a lid on things until ya can get solid treatment.

 

[BBT]

My Infectious disease Dr. just gave me Cipro for a trip to Kuala Lumpur in the event I drink the water and the Pepto tablets don't work.

 

[Voosh]

Re: "so again...knowing that?..why in the world would anyone push their luck with vacation time???

just doesn't make sense to me...


take your normal rational precautions and you have one less thing to think about.."

Why tempt the fates? Sometimes it's work related. Sometimes it's because it's a break/vacation and we feel very lucky to do it.

Worrying can put a huge damper on anything. IMHO.

 

[JEK]

At least the cisterns are full.

 

[tim]

For those non-French readers, the above notice says that the island's public water supply is being shut down. Those without cisterns therefore will have to bucket to flush or postpone flushing, neither good alternatives. The desal plant always has to shut down their intake when the wave action is similar to this past week's.