Do i have to boil snow or can i just melt it and drink it straight

>>967256
You need to boil it after melting it.

>he's never played "The Long Dark"

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>>967258
>vidya game
Do i need to boil fresh rain water?

>>967256
If it's fresh snow not around any area with chemicals, melting will suffice.

If it's stale snow, around lots of animals or man made areas, best to boil.

Smoky water is fine. A life time of it and you might get a stomach lining issue from the ash, but that can also happen from too much BBQ, medication, fried food, etc. In other words it's fine.

When I boil water on a cold night for drinking, I love the crisp taste with a slight smoke flavor first thing in the morning it's an amazing thing.

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>>967261
Thanks for your concise answer, anon.

You get an A.

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>>967260
>being retarded

>>967261
>>967256
>ash in your water

Put the snow in a coffee pot. When it whistles, it is ready. No ash problem.

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>>967260

A Google search suggests there's some debate on this issue.

>>967263
Is that tent as garbage as amazon reviews say?

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>>967298
Probibly

>>967284
Which is more than enough reason to play it safe and boil.

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I once spent 8 weeks on an Island in Fiji drinking from a tap which I thought was clean. NO IDEA why I thought it would be fine.

It was connected to a huge rain collection tank, probably about 8 metres in diameter, uncovered. Kids use to play in it like a giant swimming pool, probably animals went in there, any junk that fell off trees or out of the sky too. The tap was totally unfiltered. Closest doctors was 5 hour boat trip.

Somehow I wasn't sick but there again when I came back to civilization I had this exploding cyst thing on my leg which boiled up and ruptured every few months for 2 years which was probably natures way of reminding me what a fucking idiot I was.

Anyway, moral of my story is to always play it safe, and if you don't, you'll probably survive to tell the tale.

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>>967440
https://www.google.com/search?q=waterborne+parasites+affecting+legs&tbm=isch

Don't click.

>>967440
There is a slight difference between that and fresh snow.

Bacteria and different protazoans can actually live on snow.

If it's fresh snow I wouldn't worry. If it's been sitting on the ground a while I would boil it.