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> 'Potable' water sources like wells and
> some public supplies may not always be free of microbial life that could
> (eventually) spoil your syrup.

There was a bee keeper in Ontario that bought a farm and the water was
contaminated . He mixed up sugar syrup and it caused him to lose his bees

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