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you can survive over a month without food, but they must have found some water. update: they are surrounded by water which gets contaminated by their excrement
by singularity2001 8y ago
you can survive over a month without food, but they must have found some water.
update: they are surrounded by water which gets contaminated by their excrements. not good.
- doikor 8y agoThey were stuck in a cave that was flooding. Plenty of water to go around. Probably not the cleanest but will do in an emergency.
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- maxerickson 8y agoDiarrhea will make you die a lot faster, your attitude is a bit blasè for water that is potentially contaminated with feces.
- varjag 8y agoWhy would there be feces? They aren't in sewers. And even if there was a chance of diarrhoea, what would be your alternative?
- maxerickson 8y agoIn flood waters? Because there is a little bit of everything in flood waters. Apparently there is water seeping into the space they are in. I'd drink that before I'd drink the inundation water.
- varjag 8y agoBut that's exactly what the GP said.. they are being flooded.
- lawlessone 8y ago>Why would there be feces? Because they have to go too.
- varjag 8y agoThey are being flooded, fresh water goes in.. most likely along the walls too.
- dillondoyle 8y agoIt's not like someone from the US who has only drank clean processed water
- saagarjha 8y agoYes, I'd like to know where they found water clean enough to drink, or a way to make it clean. Floodwater runoff is probably not the best thing to ingest…
- kabes 8y agoCan't find the link, but saw a video of someone of the rescue team explaining there is drinkable mineral water streaming off the walls in the cave.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoNote everyone is used to having chlorinated and flouride(d) water so their bodies might have been used to relatively dirty water. Of course, I could wrong in their case...don't know their background
- trashtester 8y agoHow prejudiced of you :) Most places in Thailand have access to purified water for drinking. Here is an article from Cambodia, where they are some years behind: https://medium.com/make-a-difference/bringing-clean-water-to-rural-cambodia-791dbb493fd2 https://medium.com/make-a-difference/bringing-clean-water-to...
- onetimemanytime 8y agoha! They down-voted me apparently. To those that down-voted me: Not everyone can turn the tap on and get clean water. Even if Thailand has it today, they probably didn't have it yesterday. When you drink from dubious sources, unless you die as a child, you gain some sort of immunity. A techie from SF can get sick and even die, but a local can drink from the same source and nothing happens to him /her.
- apatters 8y agoThais mostly drink bottled water, which is clean. They aren't drinking river water or something. Most of Thailand lacks drinkable tap water. Food hygiene standards are more lax than in the West though.