How clean is glacier drinking water?

From my experience, having drunk from glacier water flows in Iceland, they are generally very clear. I was stationed there for over a year while serving in the Air Force, I visited a few waterfalls and camped around them. read more

From my experience, having drunk from glacier water flows in Iceland, they are generally very clear. I was stationed there for over a year while serving in the Air Force, I visited a few waterfalls and camped around them. I'd always try the water. I'll post pictures tonight. read more

When it comes to water vending machines, life is really like a box of chocolates since you don't know whether you're going to get quality water or contaminated water. Two bay area groups tested Glacier Water machines for trihalomethanes (THMs), which causes low birth-weight babies and other illnesses, finding that two-thirds of the machines failed to eliminate 97% of THMs, as was Glacier Water's claim. read more

If you mean, whether it is safe to drink the water melting from glaciers and flowing as rivulets to form streams and then join rivers then it is always safe to drink water from bigger streams rather than small rivulets because sometimes mounatin people use small streams for cleaning puposes but they never touch largers streams.. read more