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Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk by rodgerd on Sunday August 27, 2017 @03:51PM (#15112352)
Roof-fed tanks are becoming common where I live. The water is probably safe to drink without treatment (I spent my teenage years in a rural environment with entirely roof-fed water tanks), but boiling or chlorine will ensure that.
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Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk by wavefunction on Sunday August 27, 2017 @04:48PM (#15112634)
As a child I had a dead bird come through our Saudi compound apartment's roof-fed tank system.

Definitely an outlier but I would suggest purifying all water you consumer if possible.

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Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk by saryant on Sunday August 27, 2017 @08:20PM (#15113594)
Urban legend has it that dead bodies have occasionally been found in rooftop water tanks in Hong Kong.
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Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk by arethuza on Monday August 28, 2017 @04:54AM (#15115295)
My aunt and uncle who farm here in Scotland once thought that their water tasted a bit funny so went to inspect the water tank up on the hill that supplied their water. Inside the tank they found a well decomposed sheep.
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Re:Doomsday planning for less crazy folk by smelterdemon on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:02PM (#15113767)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam
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