On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:39:13 -0400, Sean Elkins
wrote:

(snipped)

The time-hallowed practice of fetching water from a hand pump -- for
preparing meals, washing dishes or washing dirty kids -- may become a
thing of the past. Like a small-town post office, where people meet and
talk, the campground hand pump is where campers meet and talk, forming
friendships that can last a weekend or a lifetime."

WOW- it's a good thing they kept those plans "secret".


Yeah. And that everyone forgot the even more time hallowed practice
of fetching water from a lake or stream and boiling it to kill the
germs.

Then there's the unhallowed practice I like to follow. Taking along
drinking water when car camping or even canoe camping.
--

r.bc: vixen
Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.
Really.