safety checks for car and also catchement Q

[MarkP]

Whenever I read about innovative ways to treat water in developing nations like using the clear PET bottles and irradiating it by putting them in the sun, I also read about how that particular method is desirable because, since the water is sterilized already in the end use containers, there is a reduced rick of re-contamination during transfer from container to container. Having just visited the county taps and watched as people cheerfully filled trash cans, plastic storage bins, gas cans, and crusty old 5 gallon paint buckets, industriously snapping cracked lids on the top that moments before they had been walking on, my thoughts are that it is only county water until it leaves the county tap. After that it is no better than catchment water and if you are the type that is sufficiently aware of the risk factors to safeguard against contamination in transport then you are probably the type that would put together and operate a good catchment system.

One guy had a 275 gallon tote in a trailer. It had about 6" of green water in the bottom. He tipped it up and dumped most of it out the top (he was a huge guy) then filled it up. No rinse. No chlorine.