Drinking water in the mountains
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| Tadej31. 08. 2011 19:24:30 |
Continuation of the topic about drinking water in the mountains...
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| vojko5030. 08. 2011 20:48:19 |
Last weekend after two years I was again at Seven Lakes. Water from the tap in front of the hut is no longer drinkable, contaminated due to bacteria. I drank it myself, without consequences. Maybe someone knows if it's a marketing move regarding the fact that in the hut 1l of Zale water is 4 euros.
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| lynx30. 08. 2011 20:56:52 |
Probably not, because at the beginning of summer it was still ok. But this rain will help a lot.
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| Žiga2230. 08. 2011 20:57:32 |
In all high mountain huts they will tell you water is not drinkable.
Possible reasons:
a) really not drinkable
b) why melt free water from tap if they can sell bottled for 4 eur per half liter? (be honest, put yourself in hutkeeper's shoes - need to earn and cover operating costs and staff)
c) imagine in huts like Seven Lakes, Planika, Kredarica etc., where every day (peak season) at least 300 hikers pass, each hiker uses at least ca. 1 liter of water for washing and 1 liter to refill drinking reserves. That's ca. 1000 liters of water per day! Guaranteed we exhaust Triglav glacier in one or two seasons, heavy burden for nature. So this reason has more ecological grounds.
As for me the last reason is most sensible and I fully support it.
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| viharnik30. 08. 2011 21:26:01 |
I don't know where water would be purer than precisely at higher altitudes, where there is no pollution and settlements.
Every water is good for drinking, as the saying goes, water cleans itself; if it flows over a hundred stones it even gathers foam, when bubbling and in waterfalls it splits water molecules and mixes them with air.
I drink water everywhere where above there are no more houses, PL postojank, pastures and I have never had any health problems. Do you think what we eat and drink in huts is all super and healthy with some guarantees.
Every fruit and water from nature is an invaluable value of full trust, because the molecules there are still completely unchanged, grown exclusively only with the help of natural power (water, sun, soil) and therefore have much greater power and beneficial-healing effect on humans. Even in pharmacy they would squeak thinly if they did not obstruct natural medicine-herbs so much that it penetrates into human healing and that without side effects. But like this, when one "heals one symptom" of the disease, artificial medicines create another disease in the body-disharmony-domino effect.
I think that in the mountains every water is healthy, if only it is not polluted with dirty snowmelt, which is caused by the burning of kerosene from airplanes.
My grandma told me that her parents already said how it would once be with food: Everything will sparkle in showcases, everything will be nicely wrapped but unhealthy for humans.
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| miri30. 08. 2011 21:43:42 |
That the water is drinkable almost everywhere, I believe you. But that it is pure in the high mountains doesn't hold. You surely have, I don't doubt, seen snow when it melts. Have you ever grabbed the black edge? Multiple washing didn't clean the stain I got on Rombon. I think this pollution comes (and comes) from the Po Valley.
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| krena30. 08. 2011 22:06:48 |
My experiences aren't very good when it comes to water from the hills, because last year I got a virus from Triglavska Bistrica, there livestock was grazing and probably got contaminated, so I avoid such water, I'd rather take more with me, only if it's a real spring then I fill up
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| Bojan_A31. 08. 2011 08:52:02 |
No, the joke is elsewhere! The thing with black rim on old snowfields holds, but that's due to atmospheric pollution.
In huts it says water is not potable just because of bureaucracy- because if water is marked as potable they have to get some papers from water supply inspectorate. If they stick up water not potable then they avoid that bureaucratic hurdle.
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| katty31. 08. 2011 09:09:30 |
Regarding water at Triglav Lakes - until recently it was completely potable, the warden told me so too. She says she drinks it every day, and has never felt any effects . It's true they had it tested beginning of August, and found elevated amount of I don't know which bacteria . But we enjoyed it too, both this past weekend and 14 days ago, and no one had anything . We paid 4.40 euros for 1.5 liters of water, which is really too much. I'm from under Kanjavec, where there's still some snow patches, collected that into two plastic bottles, and I had nothing either. It had really unusual taste. Bojan A, you read my mind.
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| keber131. 08. 2011 14:10:35 |
What Bojan said, the warden at Kriški Podi told me years ago too.
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| urbancek31. 08. 2011 14:28:42 |
Water in mountains is gold!
Not just 4.40 euros, many have been in a situation where they'd give much more, just to have it at hand that moment... Regards!
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| jprim31. 08. 2011 17:43:45 |
No, let me add something about drinking water. Just like Bojan said, because of the hasap system that must be considered also in huts, it's like that, ... I myself asked for water where it was written that the water is not potable and the warden nicely explained the matter.
But that it can be infected with some bacteria, I'm more doubtful ... since my husband and I drank water already from a moss-overgrown trough, more standing than flowing, and we didn't catch an infection ... , that was the trip to Bavški Grintavec where we ran out of water, I would have drunk from a puddle too at that time.
Well yeah, I'm still drawn to Triglav this year too.
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| lynx31. 08. 2011 17:58:46 |
You already had luck, little bosa concludes universal truth based on one case. Aja, if anyone is interested in details: hasap is HACCP.
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