Clean enough to drink

Could you drink from your local river or stream? In an extract from his book ‘Unwilded’, Alastair Humphreys heads to his nearest river armed with a basic chemistry set, a mug and a thirst for a drink of water. How clean is your local river or stream? Only a very small number of English rivers […]

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