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If you have fire a water source and a clean towel do you need purification tablets or filters?
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??? Well you'd need something to hold the water for starters... I don't think the towel(clean or dirty) will hold enough water to use tablets, a filter, or boiling.
Quite the multi-faceted question.
If you have a vessel that you can boil the water in, you can inactivate all the micro-biological impurities, including the nasty little giardia lamblia cysts.
What boiling and a towel WON'T remove is heavy metals and quite a few chemical contaminants.
Quick note: Those water purification tablets WON'T inactivate the "beaver fever" bug!
Bubba
Quick Note: Nor will it inactivate the "Beiber Fever" bug. Sorry. My little cousin came to my house and she is a Justin Beiber fanatic.
If you boil it, it will be fine. There's probably more heavy metals in your tap/well water than there is in natural sources. Any flowing water should be fine if boiled. Exceptions include any water in Ohio...
After boiling if you pour it back and forth a few times it takes the flat taste away.
Just a note - most backpacking filters are very good at removing giardia and other bugs - but very few will remove dissolved chemicals of any kind.
fezzant, Does boiling water help with dissolved chemicals?
They would not hurt to have them, but you could get by without.
Hi...
NO. Boiling water will not remove dissolved dangerous chemicals from water...unless you are distilling it.
Just bring them they weigh a fraction of a pound and they can help you to not die. Why risk it.
I never rely on a single method for preparing water. Depending on your source, you can determine just how much treatment it needs...Typically I use, sodium hypochlorite, or iodine drops/tabs, and boil it for atleast 7 minutes. If you have the means to distill your water then that alone is enough. As for chemical and heavy metals, a multistage filter will help, if you don't own one, you can make one. This isn't as good as a store bought but it helps, use tree bark, rocks, stones, pebbles, moss then sand in an athletic sock...Run your water through this a few times, then boil thoroughly.
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Quite the multi-faceted question.
If you have a vessel that you can boil the water in, you can inactivate all the micro-biological impurities, including the nasty little giardia lamblia cysts.
What boiling and a towel WON'T remove is heavy metals and quite a few chemical contaminants.
Quick note: Those water purification tablets WON'T inactivate the "beaver fever" bug!
Bubba
Quick Note: Nor will it inactivate the "Beiber Fever" bug. Sorry. My little cousin came to my house and she is a Justin Beiber fanatic.
If you boil it, it will be fine. There's probably more heavy metals in your tap/well water than there is in natural sources. Any flowing water should be fine if boiled. Exceptions include any water in Ohio...
After boiling if you pour it back and forth a few times it takes the flat taste away.
They would not hurt to have them, but you could get by without.
Hi...
NO. Boiling water will not remove dissolved dangerous chemicals from water...unless you are distilling it.
Just bring them they weigh a fraction of a pound and they can help you to not die. Why risk it.
I never rely on a single method for preparing water. Depending on your source, you can determine just how much treatment it needs...Typically I use, sodium hypochlorite, or iodine drops/tabs, and boil it for atleast 7 minutes. If you have the means to distill your water then that alone is enough. As for chemical and heavy metals, a multistage filter will help, if you don't own one, you can make one. This isn't as good as a store bought but it helps, use tree bark, rocks, stones, pebbles, moss then sand in an athletic sock...Run your water through this a few times, then boil thoroughly.
??? Well you'd need something to hold the water for starters... I don't think the towel(clean or dirty) will hold enough water to use tablets, a filter, or boiling.
Just a note - most backpacking filters are very good at removing giardia and other bugs - but very few will remove dissolved chemicals of any kind.
fezzant, Does boiling water help with dissolved chemicals?
Post an Answer