Eli5 How did travelers/crusaders in medieval times get a clean and consistent source of water
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Like many said they didn’t. From a human health perspective even those who were not falling ill and/or dying, most of those folks were not “healthy” as you envisage it today. For example it is quite likely they were all infected by parasites which wasn’t that uncommon at that time. Where did they get those? Bad water, food, exposure to other infected people. Important to note they probably had these before they even started the campaign but certainly could have picked up more along the way. Others have mentioned the bacterial infections that killed some of them, all par for the course when the water and food sources were not clean.
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