I am not anything close to an ecologist or a biologist so this question may be really dumb. But I know that water is essential. It is used in many important bodily processes and we would die without it very quickly.
So my question is, how did so many generations of humans survive without the water purification standards that we have today?
Is there a reasonable amount of dirt, toxins, bacteria, etc… that can be in water and it won’t make us sick?
I also know people have boiled water for a very long time but didn’t we only discover bacteria and viruses in the lasts several hundred years? Did people know that boiling water would purify it?
Also am I wrong for thinking that most water in nature is dangerous to drink?
Hopefully these questions make sense.
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This is why, for a lot of human history, we were all slightly drunk all the time. Alcohol kills germs. So watered down wine, beer, and cider were mainstays even for children. You drank milk until you were 5 and then switched to booze. You’ll notice that China had their sh1t together a lot before Europe did? Well, China drank boiled tea, so they had caffeine instead of booze. And the Enlightenment in Europe coming around the time that Europe started drinking tea too? Not a coincidence.
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