Hi everybody I'm new to these forums and fairly new to wilderness survival. I've read and seen that boiling water is a good way to purify it but I've always seen this done with ground water, river and stream water, but never lake or pond. If you're in a situation where there is a dirty pond or lake as the sole source of water, is it safe to boil that water and drink it? I've seen on Survivorman some situations where there was some bad looking water and he always passes on it to look for a better source of water, so does that mean that that kind of water is bad news no matter what? I'm asking this because come spring time my friend and I are going to have a survival weekend deep in the woods and I know of a lake nearby but it may be dirty and full of parasites and I'm hoping boiling the water will help us.
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