Keeping your water butt sweet!

I missed the word water at first reading??

I’d never thought about LD in the water butts. We’ve got 4 and we always clean them out at least once a year. It will be useful to find out about the discs. So much to worry about.....

Lucca ?

www.harrodhorticultural.com/em-ceramic-chips-pid7955.html
I bought a bag of ceramic beads years ago and my butt water is still crystal clear!

I read somewhere, sometime, that charcoal would keep water clear.
As I had some charcoal sticks, for drawing, I threw a couple in the water butt, and it is as clear as anything.

I don’t do anything to mine it’s always clear it does have a lid.

Thank you everyone.

I've never thought about this till recently but did read about legionnaires disease if the water gets too warm in the barrel.
I thought I had enough going on in life without that problem it was preventable!

I wonder how the beads work shysal? And yes, charcoal is in water filters but they usually have silver in too.

No, I've not had any visible issues either tanith. I was hoping there might be a retired microbiologist or similar on here...