Travel Water Purification - Page 2

MrPulldown · 11-27-2012, 12:58 PM

I would place water treatment into two catagories. One to filter out crud and two to kill partistes.

When hiking in low elevation areas I ususualy carry a filter. I too use the sweet water filter. THough I have broken it before and it has left em without water.

When hiking at hiker elevations when the water will msot likey be free of cows dropping their loads I use polar pure. It is iodine, but you pour in an iodine solution. There is solid iodine balls, looks like bb's, you add water and make the solution in the bottle. Pour out as many cap fulls as the water temps determines the solutions concentration. I also evaluate the waters purity and consider how many cap fulls to fill. This is a great way to chemicily treat your water as it leaves very little bad taste.

This is what I carry if I am traveling to countries of questionable water quaqlity. THough if I am in such a country I will jsut buy bottled water.
http://www.polarequipment.com/directions.htm

MrPulldown · 11-27-2012, 01:07 PM

Looks like the DEA has outlawed the sale of iodine. Polar pure is not able to make its product. Maybe some stores still have some back stock.

shu · 11-27-2012, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by SgtDuster

Traveling means clear water, right? Steri-Pen all the way then!

Yup......very quick, easy, reliable. Stop anywhere, fill your bottle from a tap, 90 seconds later........ clean drinkable water.

...........shu

TuonoBiker · 11-27-2012, 08:47 PM

The wife and I do a fair amount of backpacking (PA, NY, ME, MT) and have used http://www.aquamira.com/consumer/aqu...reatment-drops for years. Available at EMS and REI...

We've never gotten sick from bad water and the taste is actually not bad...very slight chloring taste...not as bad as some tap water I've had. That being said, we've always been in the mountains and had some sort of availability to mountain streams or small brooks where you could get clear water.

If I were headed into a situation where I didn't know what the water sources were going to be like, I'd buy a filtration device...we have an old Katadyn model that was really cool since the end spout fit perfectly into the top of a Nalgene bottle. It was super slow, but you could filter water from a puddle in the middle of the cow pasture and probably not get sick....not that I'd try, but I read it on the internet...must be true!

triplenickel · 11-28-2012, 11:16 AM

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Originally Posted by shu

Yup......very quick, easy, reliable. Stop anywhere, fill your bottle from a tap, 90 seconds later........ clean drinkable water.

...........shu

Steripens are great and tough as nails.

ChadHahn · 11-28-2012, 10:31 PM

Depending on where you travel you'd probably want the AA battery Steripen. The batteries don't last as long as some of the other options but it's probably easier to get AA batteries in the middle of Egypt say than 123A batteries.

Chad

K0m4 · 11-29-2012, 01:32 AM

Isn't chlorine dioxide pretty much without taste? I have it at home, but never had the need to use it yet. It comes as a liquid as well as tablets, should be easy enough to bring with you.

TheSweatyButcher · 11-29-2012, 12:55 PM

I pack a MSR Moix water purifier. It makes chlorine with salt and battery power. Its small, super handy and can make enough chlorine for up to 6 liters of water at a time. But most of the time when out and about I buy Big jugs of water for a buck or two.

11-27-2012, 12:58 PM	#16
MrPulldown Beastly Adventurer Joined: Aug 2009 Location: Truckee Oddometer: 1,249	I would place water treatment into two catagories. One to filter out crud and two to kill partistes. When hiking in low elevation areas I ususualy carry a filter. I too use the sweet water filter. THough I have broken it before and it has left em without water. When hiking at hiker elevations when the water will msot likey be free of cows dropping their loads I use polar pure. It is iodine, but you pour in an iodine solution. There is solid iodine balls, looks like bb's, you add water and make the solution in the bottle. Pour out as many cap fulls as the water temps determines the solutions concentration. I also evaluate the waters purity and consider how many cap fulls to fill. This is a great way to chemicily treat your water as it leaves very little bad taste. This is what I carry if I am traveling to countries of questionable water quaqlity. THough if I am in such a country I will jsut buy bottled water. http://www.polarequipment.com/directions.htm __________________ 94 DR 350 SE

11-27-2012, 01:07 PM	#17
MrPulldown Beastly Adventurer Joined: Aug 2009 Location: Truckee Oddometer: 1,249	Looks like the DEA has outlawed the sale of iodine. Polar pure is not able to make its product. Maybe some stores still have some back stock. __________________ 94 DR 350 SE

11-27-2012, 08:47 PM	#19
TuonoBiker Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Mar 2012 Location: So.Central PA Oddometer: 405	The wife and I do a fair amount of backpacking (PA, NY, ME, MT) and have used http://www.aquamira.com/consumer/aqu...reatment-drops for years. Available at EMS and REI... We've never gotten sick from bad water and the taste is actually not bad...very slight chloring taste...not as bad as some tap water I've had. That being said, we've always been in the mountains and had some sort of availability to mountain streams or small brooks where you could get clear water. If I were headed into a situation where I didn't know what the water sources were going to be like, I'd buy a filtration device...we have an old Katadyn model that was really cool since the end spout fit perfectly into the top of a Nalgene bottle. It was super slow, but you could filter water from a puddle in the middle of the cow pasture and probably not get sick....not that I'd try, but I read it on the internet...must be true! __________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- '12 R1200GS Adventure '11 Harley Street Glide '07 Tuono Factory - gone but not forgotten

11-29-2012, 01:32 AM	#22
K0m4 Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Nov 2010 Location: Central Europe Oddometer: 417	Isn't chlorine dioxide pretty much without taste? I have it at home, but never had the need to use it yet. It comes as a liquid as well as tablets, should be easy enough to bring with you. __________________ Suzuki DL1000 -07 Suzuki TL 1000 S -99 Suzuki GSX 1100 E -82 Introduction/ride report: what's in an adventure?

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11-28-2012, 10:31 PM	#21
ChadHahn Gnarly Adventurer Joined: Mar 2010 Location: Tucson, AZ Oddometer: 178	Depending on where you travel you'd probably want the AA battery Steripen. The batteries don't last as long as some of the other options but it's probably easier to get AA batteries in the middle of Egypt say than 123A batteries. Chad

11-29-2012, 12:55 PM	#23
TheSweatyButcher n00b Joined: Oct 2012 Oddometer: 2	I pack a MSR Moix water purifier. It makes chlorine with salt and battery power. Its small, super handy and can make enough chlorine for up to 6 liters of water at a time. But most of the time when out and about I buy Big jugs of water for a buck or two.