I just wanted to write a note to cite a book a little older than the rest of these....doesn't the Bible state all through it about the women,etc., going to the well for drinking water??!! There is no way that I would ever believe that a lush, green, clean country such as Ireland wouldn't have had some fresh water. I would also imagine that it was harder to find around London with the contamination but I cannot believe that all/ or most of the water in Europe was bad. I have heard Europeans that come here talk about not drinking our water and will only drink their bottles of water...we have bad water .....i.e. chemicals, toxins... That is one big thing that our ancestors didn't have to deal with and that is all of these horrible toxins put into our streams. Surely, though, I can trust that the Bible was correct in talking about the cool, clean water... Though, too, I would imagine if people had a choice of drinking plain water-clean or not-or drinking some type of stimulant or go-go juice, they would choose the later. Diana Kinzer Heath ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USGenWeb County Coordinator for: Roanoke Co., Roanoke City & Salem City, VA at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~varoanok/index.html Wood Co., WV at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwood/indexa.htm Mason Co., WV at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvmason/ Rootsweb Mail List Owner/Admin for: VAROANOK-L@Rootsweb.com WVWOOD-L@Rootsweb.com KINZER-L@Rootsweb.com GRALEY-L@Rootsweb.com MILLER-L@Rootsweb.com SCHMIDT-L@Rootsweb.com BERNHARD-L@Rootsweb.com KARP-L@Rootsweb.com GenConnect Surname Boards Admin. for: KINZER, CORNS & MILLER. MY HOME PAGE: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/e/a/Diana-K-Heath/ ***Proud Rootsweb Sponsor***