I was reading in the news about a company that was offering a rain water catchment and processing facility for would be buyers. This just got me thinking, is our air so polluted that we can’t even drink God given water from the clouds anymore?
My Dad worked in the island of Mindanao in the early 50’s. He was a teenager then and he contracted and suffered a severe bout of amoebiasis. Mindanao at that time was a forest, not really much development. So electricity and potable water wasn’t available yet at that time.
I don’t know how developed the medicines for amoebiasis was then but medicines like Flagyl weren’t available to him. So he lived a couple of years with an amoebiasis infestation in his stomach. Now if you’ve never experienced an amoebiasis infection before, let me tell you, its hell on earth with the stomach cramps and excessive trips to the bathroom.
So what he did was stay away from pork based foods which was said to trigger them to multiply. He also had to drink only rain water because it was clean, if it didn’t rain he had to make do with boiling water. I used to remember too in the 70’s when I was staying in the farm my Dad was working in, we also had to subsist on rain water and boiled water. We used to leave containers out to catch rain from a strong down pour. I didn’t contract any problems then.
I think there is only one way to find out with regards to this question. On the next downpour I should grab a cup and allow rain water to fill it up. See if the water is murky and all. Then again, you can’t really tell unless you bring it to the lab for an organism count.
Category: Environment
