I wouldn't reject it just because of tadpoles, I might try to filter and boil the water if I could do so relatively easily. The problem they had was the heat of the "blast-furnace days of June". If I were dying of thirst I would not give a second thought to drinking out of a mud hole inhabited by pollywog's.
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