Hut water warning signage changes

i think its been mentioned in another post under the law, in a public building, to say the water is drinkable, it has to be lab tested regularly and pass a lab test as being fit to drink if you arent testing it then you hace to put up a note like that warning people that they have to boil it to be on the safe side. it would cost a fortune to gather the water, a qualified independant technician would have to go around gathering samples and take them to a lab.... cheap option is put a sign up.

This is the flow on from the Havelock North water contamination issue. DOC have been classified as a water supllier like any other water provider & made to follow the same rules. Daft? Maybe. But external to DOC at any rate

But didn't they actually have an outbreak of water born illness up there (somewhere at the top of the South Island, apologies, cant remember where) either last summer or the summer before? DOC ends up copping the blame for everything that happens in the conservation estate, even when its nothing do with them (people washing babies in hut sinks etc) so signs like this are the inevitable next step.

@yarmoss not sure if you're thinking about the Norovirus infection that went around nelson lakes national park huts, which isnt waterborn .. normally its common sense, if the tank looks like its old and manky or theres easy access for an animal to fall in and drown then you treat the water.

Dont you just fish the possoms rats and birds out of the tank before drinking? Soon they will be putting the same signs next to the streams where you collect water when there is no tank

>not sure if you're thinking about the Norovirus infection that went around nelson lakes national park huts, which isnt waterborn .. Yup, thats exactly what I was thinking of, and the Center for Disease Control and Southern Cross healthcare say otherwise... https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/about/transmission.html https://www.southerncross.co.nz/group/medical-library/norovirus-symptoms-treatment

I did query the reason for the new signage with DOC and was give the change of rules for all water providers post-Hawkes Bay as an explanation. Though I agree the other outbreaks will also be weighing on DOC's risk-averse collective mind too, no doubt.

i should say its not believed to be specifically waterborn, the advice is to clean all surfaces, if it was specifically waterborn then you'd have to empty the watertanks if it got in there and sterilise them. i think its believed its spread due to general bad hygiene, you've got a lot of people going through that area in summer and its hard to get a handle on the hygiene, the norovirus went further south than nelson lakes it was reported in canterbury huts too, TA walkers may have helped spread that one further afield... i sat next to some of them at lunch at st arnaud in a restaurant, by the smell of them they didnt bother to clean up before lunch. even for trampers they really smelt. some of the women through hikers from overseas practice different hygiene using "pee rags" they use for cleaning themselves, you can guess with the name what they get used for, they leave on the outside of their packs,, in dry conditions the belief is they sterilise themselves in the sun, if you've got a lot of dry weather that may work, but if you've got wet conditions you've got a real germ infested piece of cloth that's being endlessly reused... i'm not judging, i'm just stating what little i'm aware of about the practice. when you get norovirus it spreads pretty easily and its hard to eradicate from what i've read about outbreaks... every bit of hygiene helps to try and get rid of it .

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