Letter of the month
A WARNING TO ALWAYS TREAT YOUR WATER
I have enjoyed tramping in many different parts of our beautiful country and have always appreciated our ‘clean, green’ natural environment.
Staying at DOC huts and camping beside rivers or streams is one of the great things about living in New Zealand, especially as we don’t have to worry about things like wild animals that may eat us or poison us.
We do, however, have an invisible parasite that, up until now, I thought was something very few people became afflicted with and was really nothing to worry about: Giardia.
On a recent overnighter, I drank unfiltered water from the sparkling
