When I found out about the boil water notice, I had just drank about half of my water bottle full of Prince Rupert tap water.
At first I was concerned.
I’m still haunted by my date with beaver fever in Nepal, and many other pleasantries that are often a traveller’s right of passage in many parts of the world.
There are 65 long-term drinking water advisories on reserves in this country, as of Dec. 14, according to Indigenous Services Canada.
The local nurse told me that it was because my skin wasn’t used to their water.
Fortunately, I was able to leave and recover.
We had an E. coli contamination in the water there, and the taps were shut right off.
Once again, the boil water notice came and went.
My car doesn’t need to be washed, ever, and that surge of rainwater we just got is now turning the mountains into playgrounds for ski bums.
This boil water notice is just a blip in the system to remind us of how great we have it here, when the water is clean.