Someone told me the water from the Little Colorado River is not good to drink because of its salt content. Has that been anyone elses experience? I have heard you can drink the water from the Colorado if you filter out the silt.
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Someone told me the water from the Little Colorado River is not good to drink because of its salt content. Has that been anyone elses experience? I have heard you can drink the water from the Colorado if you filter out the silt.
nat_smale
I drank water from the LCR for about 2-3 days some years back, with iodine tablets. It definitely doesn’t taste very good, but it worked fine. I’m not sure if it is so much the salt, as some other kind of minerals.
Nat
— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “marlowequart” wrote:
Someone told me the water from the Little Colorado River is not good to drink because of its salt content. Has that been anyone elses experience? I have heard you can drink the water from the Colorado if you filter out the silt. >
vapormanb
Last LCR trip, someone brought a ceramic Katadyn filter and the water tasted clean, no hard water taste, and great thing about a ceramic is that they’re easy to clean in the field. =)
— In Yahoo Canyons Group, “marlowequart” wrote:
Someone told me the water from the Little Colorado River is not good to drink because of its salt content. Has that been anyone elses experience? I have heard you can drink the water from the Colorado if you filter out the silt. >
Marmot
I drank LCR water for 3 days in the late 70s while on a ten day hike, it wasn’t great tasting but I’ve had worse. Last day on the LCR we made a pot of beans with the water, the flatulence which went on for days in all three of us was exhausting, I think it was the water in combination with the beans, never experienced anything like that before or since. M
On 11/19/2012 9:52 AM, marlowequart wrote: > Someone told me the water from the Little Colorado River is not good to drink because of its salt content. Has that been anyone elses experience? I have heard you can drink the water from the Colorado if you filter out the silt.