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The meagre stream contains as much algae as it does water

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00005-bad-water-800px.jpg The water that drips out from under the tree roots at Cottonwood Spring flows over this rock as a clear shiny filmThumbnailsThe stream is too shallow to pump water from it, so I dig a small depression to accept the intake hose of my water filterThe water that drips out from under the tree roots at Cottonwood Spring flows over this rock as a clear shiny filmThumbnailsThe stream is too shallow to pump water from it, so I dig a small depression to accept the intake hose of my water filterThe water that drips out from under the tree roots at Cottonwood Spring flows over this rock as a clear shiny filmThumbnailsThe stream is too shallow to pump water from it, so I dig a small depression to accept the intake hose of my water filterThe water that drips out from under the tree roots at Cottonwood Spring flows over this rock as a clear shiny filmThumbnailsThe stream is too shallow to pump water from it, so I dig a small depression to accept the intake hose of my water filterThe water that drips out from under the tree roots at Cottonwood Spring flows over this rock as a clear shiny filmThumbnailsThe stream is too shallow to pump water from it, so I dig a small depression to accept the intake hose of my water filter

There's also a fair amount of mud around, or is that something less sanitary? There's a reason that I'm using a water filter...