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If you drink untreated water — and you shouldn’t — this is what you’re drinking

What does untreated water look like under a microscope? Beautiful. That does not mean you should drink it.
An untreated water specimen, taken from a wild stream, revealed the presence of unidentified organisms, which included bacteria, protozoa, and algae under magnification. Here, what appears to be a minute crustacean, called a copepod, hovers near a group of bacteria in biofilm.

In 1854, a London anesthesiologist and amateur sleuth made a history-changing discovery about the link between contaminated water and human disease.

Several years before Louis Pasteur’s groundbreaking experiments

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