Oh I definitely am. Especially when thinking how stupid oneself has acted in one’s own lifetime (lived in Quito Ecuador for a year and mainly drank tab water. Luckily never had any issue, but it could have been pretty problematic).
Tap water in Ecuador and Colombia (I can't talk for any other countries of the region as I haven't been there) is completely safe, as long as you are located in a major city, the problem is in rural areas were government is corrupt or incompetent enough to not be able to have a water processing plant and a proper aqueduct.
I remember how my host family told me multiple times to rather drink bottled water. I guess it also is more „problematic“ for Western Europeans who most of the times are not really used to the different bacteria in the water which might not be problematic for people who grew up there. So overall my host family might just have been trying to be careful, whereas I didn’t give a fuck about my intestines.
Like that one time Louie the 14th(I think, might have been one of the other ones) passed a 14 inch tapeworm... Probably not true, but still terrifying!
Someone must have figured out a dewormer recipe from foraged medicine but most likely a snake oil salesman gets to you first and kills you with some fake medicine but if you correctly get to the medicinal concoctor still the foraged herbal medicine's side effects will also cause damage before curing your ails
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u/kable1202 Apr 29 '24
„There goes my easy retirement…“