Would You Drink Rain Water?

Easily one of the dumbest threads I've started, but it's pissing down rain in my neck of the woods. My wife says there's no way you could/should rink rain water — even if you boil it.

I say you can, if you boil it.

My buddy says he'd drink it — if it wasn't the "dreaded acid rain from the 1980s."

Would you drink it? Should I drink it if I boil it?

 

I'd drink it. Got a bucket?

 

I've caught a whole pail full. I'm waiting for some feedback on here before I move forward.

 

Chug! Chug! Chug!

 

I think you'd have to filter it and then boil it, or boil and then filter, and you'd be fine. Your choice.

 

Do a Power Hour. See how long you can go.

 

Boil, filter, refrigerate, then drink away!

 

Haven't you ever caught raindrops in your mouth?

Drink it, what's the worst that can happen?

 

I'd drink it in a second.

 

Run it through a water filter designed for backpacking. It's fine.

Boil it. It's fine.

 

I would neither filter nor boil it and would drink away.

Your biggest source of any possible contamination would occur in the barrel or tank used to store the water. Rain falling from a cloud isn't going to hurt you unless the cloud was spawned over 3 Mile Island or some kind of acid-belching industrial plant.

If you're slurping up water from a creek in the mountains and you don't boil or purify it, then you're asking for trouble. My advice then would be to have a lot of toilet paper and the number for a physician on hand.