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| 1970 was about the time I first heard of clean water as an issue. I don't have a reference, but maybe can dig something up. In 1973 while backpacking I asked some 30+ year veterans of backpacking about the wisdom of drinking water straight from a lake (dunking #10 cans) to drink and cook. They mentioned they gave it little thought until recently because of the then arising environmental movement. This was the Pacific Northwest: maybe less pristine places had earlier use of filtering? —] 05:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC) | 1970 was about the time I first heard of clean water as an issue. I don't have a reference, but maybe can dig something up. In 1973 while backpacking I asked some 30+ year veterans of backpacking about the wisdom of drinking water straight from a lake (dunking #10 cans) to drink and cook. They mentioned they gave it little thought until recently because of the then arising environmental movement. This was the Pacific Northwest: maybe less pristine places had earlier use of filtering? —] 05:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC) | ||
| :The real risk with untreated water is diseases such as ]: in the 1960s and 1970s, when backpacking and outdoor recreation became much more popular, various parasite and bacterial diseases spread into previously clean water sources. --] 03:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC) | |||
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Uh oh. Discovered the "Scout outdoor essentials" after a lot of work. It looks like they are an older list, maybe the original published items. Should these articles be merged? At least linked? —EncMstr 21:12, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
- They are different (but related), I think. I've heard that they originated with the Mountaineers organization (see, e.g., ). -- hike395 11:25, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
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Thanks, hike395, for cleaning up my work. Alas, I tired toward the end.
1970 was about the time I first heard of clean water as an issue. I don't have a reference, but maybe can dig something up. In 1973 while backpacking I asked some 30+ year veterans of backpacking about the wisdom of drinking water straight from a lake (dunking #10 cans) to drink and cook. They mentioned they gave it little thought until recently because of the then arising environmental movement. This was the Pacific Northwest: maybe less pristine places had earlier use of filtering? —EncMstr 05:33, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
- The real risk with untreated water is diseases such as giardia: in the 1960s and 1970s, when backpacking and outdoor recreation became much more popular, various parasite and bacterial diseases spread into previously clean water sources. --Carnildo 03:26, 8 March 2006 (UTC)