Water-
Flip up the tap and get all you need. Next-
How about in Mexico, Central America, Morocco, or LA after the next big quake? Giardia is no joke. Sure drink bottled water, but let’s move past that.
By drinking nonpotable water you may contract diseases or swallow organisms that can harm you. Examples of such diseases or organisms are:
· Dysentery. Severe, prolonged diarrhea with bloody stools, fever, and weakness.
· Cholera and typhoid. You may be susceptible to these diseases regardless of inoculations.
· Flukes. Stagnant, polluted water--especially in tropical areas--often contains blood flukes. If you swallow flukes, they will bore into the bloodstream, live as parasites, and cause disease.
· Leeches. If you swallow a leech, it can hook onto the throat passage or inside the nose. It will suck blood, create a wound, and move to another area. Each bleeding wound may become infected.
Cool- No, not really
Water purification 101
-Boiling water for 1 minute at sea level, adding 1 minute for each additional 300 meters above sea level, or boil for 10 minutes no matter where you are.
- 1 Gallon water is disinfected by 8-16 drops of regular household bleach (visually about 1/4 of a teaspoon) - double that for cloudy water. Shake and let stand 30 minutes. One teaspoon will disinfect 5 gallons. Immediately after treating, water must initially have a slight smell of chlorine. If it does not - repeat the process.
-UV: Steripen video
-Filters: Simply pump water and add the included MSR SweetWater Purifier Solution to innactivate 99.99% of waterborne viruses, bacteria and protozoan parasites. Note Without the added chlorine solution most filters will not get viruses!
-MIOX: miox.com
Boiling is straightforward if you have the time and heat source. Bleach is cheap and totally effective, but unless you give the water time to sit, you will bleach your taste buds. The steripen is a good investment for the drifter and works well for small quantities of water. Filters are a great way to go if you are willing to carry them and use them. Most will not get viruses on their own. Miox is weird military anti-bug science in action. It has pro and cons. So all methods will work if used correctly.
Stay Thirsty!
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