>>1055620>living in germany, I'm fine drinking lake and river water , right ?Well, we have good health care and nothing really dangerous, so there likely won't be anything worse than 4 days of extensive puking and shitting happening, so go for it!
On a more serious note:
We do have some lakes, streams and springs that you can easily drink (also, see below), but it's hard to know that just from looking at them.
Generally: if it's downstream of agriculture or population, it's probably not good (so, that's about 99% of Germany).
And even your pristine forrest stream might have a dead fox in it a few meters away from your position or some deer or fellow asshole hiker shat in it.
If you are directly at a (mountain) spring, you'll probably be safe, but even then, if you have a "civilized" stomach, you might still get irritated.
Personally, I'm also trying to get /out/ more (moved to the Alps recently, and wan't to get to some climbs that are not close to a DAV hut), and it seems like a filter is a really good idea.
The /out/-approved sawyer seems like a nice and cheap option, but there is a lot of internet-drama around fakes, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do.
>>1058183>in fact, every major city in the world uses chlorine to purify tap water.Unless you are one of those
>there are no major cities in Germanyfolks, this is not true.
In most cases we only use chlorine as an emergency measure if something went wrong, or in a few shitty places with rotten infrastructure, but according to a quick wiki lookup (
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorung) that now also might be illegal.
Most German tap water has seen only a very limited filtration (mostly the removal of sediment and iron), though we now also are running into issues with "emerging contaminats" (flame retardand from technical devices, fungicides from building insulation, pharmceuticals, to name a few) that do not get filtered out by the passage through an aquifer, so this might change.
