ELI5. After a hurricane if everyone had a “life straw” could they drink the ground water?
In: Biology
Absolutely not.
Flood water is tainted by everything it encounters: not only pathogens, but contaminants as well. Petrol, diesel fuel, industrial solvents, lubricants, the list goes on and on and on. No filter is going to remove those. The only way to drink flood water without also drinking acetone, battery acid, kerosene, and lithium grease is to distill it.
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