
Originally Posted by
ChrisF
Duncan what are these tablets called (brands) ? Do you have any experience with this, ie how many tablets per 100 liter, for how long, taste, etc etc ....
I have seen Aquatabs in Africa and Puritabs here in the UK, and they are are all 1 tablet per litre of water. The tablets are minute. Don't buy them in blister packs.....they're more for backpackers to treat one water bottle at a time. You can buy them in pill-bottle like containers with 50 or 100 tablets in each.
I used tincture of iodine for our 6 month trans-Africa trip. It is probably the best of the chemicals in terms of the percentage of bugs it kills, but you do have a life-time allowance of iodine which shouldn't be exceeded. The chlorine based tablets (Puritabs and Aquatabs etc) taste better than iodine. I don't notice them at all, but if you do, you can even get a masking agent to add to the water.
Just to tempt fate, I have never had an upset stomach in all my years of travelling in Africa, India and remote parts of Australia, and I've always drunk treated local water.
Incidentally, I bumped into a scientist on a train recently, who is working on modifying honey such that adding it to water will purify it. He has it working, 100%, but they need to develop a way of scaling up the process to commercial levels. He will be a millionaire.
Mike
Last edited by MikeAG; 2011/01/13 at 09:29 PM.
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