The outdoor community made water filtration a must for a reason
I missed seeing the mentioned article, but I wonder if this is an inevitable result of the natural fallacy that has taken over Western culture.<p>Let&#x27;s all get back to the Earth and live the way many of our ancestors did: dying off in our youth or dealing with either preventable and crippling diseases or even just wandering around with weird diseases that just make life far less enjoyable.<p>On the one hand, if we were to take this approach, it would speed up natural selection for us and whatever germs develop to kill us. But for chemicals and things we do for purification of water supplies, we can at least control the chemicals and how often we use them, and I have yet heard of a any really serious bugs that can survive chlorine or just pure heat.<p>I guess I just can&#x27;t grok the way people claim to wish to live in the past, but what they&#x27;re really describing often is similar to how we would describe living in a third world. 
Unless you really believe our feces is cleaner than most, that unfiltered water your drinking could very well contain the feces of someone ignorant enough (or a pranking trollish person) to drop a deuce into the local stream.<p>And I have a great appreciation for just how blunder headed we can be, so it wouldn&#x27;t shock me if and when that&#x27;d happen.<p>And ultimately, what&#x27;s the real goal of the original article? Is it to make sure people increase their risk? Or to provide some confirmation bias to those who will do it either way?