[MR] Fwd: FW: Waterbearing going forward.

[Kelly Keck]

I tend to agree, and those guidelines could be really simple.  Waterbearers
should wash their hands, non-contact bottles should be used, bottles that
have been sucked on should be sanitized before being reused.

If I understand correctly, the proposed change would allow groups to pay for
supplies, but not to officially organize waterbearing.  That is, there could
be a self-serve water station with bottles available for anyone who wants to
go water their friends, but a group could not put a specific person in
charge of distributing water.

I also agree that this would be a bit of a logistical nightmare for wars.  I
have a mental image of a looooooooooooong line of fighters trying to refill
their personal water bottles from one or two filters at Pennsic.

Adriana

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Mary Lumpkin <maire_eriksdottir at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> The only concern that I would have about this, Who is Paying for the
> waterbearing supplies?  Not such a big deal at a small event, but what about
> at a war?  Like Pennsic.  I completely agree about the grossness of sucking
> from the same straw that someone else did.  But what happens to those
> fighters who are so used to having someone shove water at them?  They forget
> and fall out from dehydration and heat stroke.