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Ludacris sparks alarm by drinking unfiltered Alaska glacier water


Glaciologist says ‘he’s totally fine’ after video of rapper tasting water goes viral and viewers warn of contamination

Some viewers expressed concern that he was endangering his life by drinking the untreated water, warning it might be contaminated with the parasite giardia. The Alaska department of environmental conservation does not recommend drinking untreated surface water, spokesperson Kelly Rawalt said in an email. Truffer, who acknowledged he knew of Ludacris only because his neighbor in Fairbanks named his cat after the rapper, said it’s not always safe to drink water from a stream in the wild.

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