Water boil "how long to be safe"

[Rick Marchand]

One of the biggest factors is also this: how you handle the water and containers after boiling or using a filter. Many people get sick because they accidentally recontaminate the water. So, what methods do you all use to prevent this?

I use my powers to levatate the water from the container to my mouth. It takes great patience and mental conditioning....... and people often tell me that I am a mental patient so.......

 

[Brian Jones]

I use my powers to levatate the water from the container to my mouth. It takes great patience and mental conditioning....... and people often tell me that I am a mental patient so.......

Rick, all that heat from your forge, man, it's frying something...

 

[mr.trooper]

What can you believe?.....

but I also realize that there are creatures in the sea, that live in the boiling waters of volcanic springs.

Those are highly specialized organisms designed for the heat. Specialized fish live there as well, does that mean a blue gill can survive a pot of boiling water as well? :jerkit:

 

[Rick Marchand]

I prefer sushi.

 

[Brian Jones]

I prefer sushi.

:thumbup:

 

[buckabee]

I myself only boil the water for some minutes. I don't know where those resistant bacteria live and how dangerous they can be, but I would think the chances that they are in my water won't be big, as I would only boil water for drinking that already looks reasonable safe to me. So I only use water from for example a cold clear moving (mountain)river, in stead of sewer water. It looks to me that the chances of finding those heat-resistant bacteria are much smaller in cold water than it hot, but I'm not totally sure about that.
When I find a very clear looking mountain river, with fresh cold water coming directly from the snow, I have drunk it without purification in the past without problems.

When in for example africa in some survival situation, where you haven't got the choice to drink water from a safe looking river, but only from a mudpool or something, I'm sure I would try to boil my water as long as possible too.