"Uncontaminated" basically means "not dirty".
"not dirty" is pretty much the same as "clean", and clean water won't give you any diseases.
Yes. you can die from drinking unsafe water. You can get cholera, which can kill you within hours or hepatitis A or typhoid fever or bacillary or amoebic dysentery. All of them can be deadly.
You can get cholera, typhoid, hepatitis A, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, various types of worm infestations by drinking the dirty water.
Oh yes, several.
Dysentery is caused by bacteria in bad drinking water.
pellagra is caused by bad eating and not drinking lots of water
Drinking contaminated water, ingesting certain poisons, and contracting certain strains of influenza.
Yes, it is.
Water Intoxication
Yes, it is.
it is not just tastes bad
the industrial revolution had many killer diseases including cholera. they thought at the time that miasma (bad smells) caused this and that eating and drinking to much also caused it.
No. It is bad for you but moderation is the key. I prefer drinking water or semen.
They would experience illness from drinking river water and having a lack of fruits and vegetables. Bad water would cause the men to suffer from terrible boils on their skin. Lewis would suffer from a bad case of the flu one winter and Clark suffered from a "rheumatism of the neck" which caused him pain for several days. For Clark, Lewis applied a "hot stone wrapped in flannel" to help ease his pain.
It's good
Its not. It is actually delicious.