[pct-l] SODIS - Solar Water Disinfection

[Brick Robbins]

Please remember that most literature on water disinfection is for
bacteria, which is not the main problem on the trail.

Giarida and Crypto have very different traits. For example, both are
much easier to kill with temperature, but much harder to kill with
chemicals. I don't know about UV.

You need to check what sort of pathogens your "chosen method" actually
takes care of



On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:10 AM, vet at schroll <vet at schroll.at> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with solar water disinfection - SODIS?
> Water should be exposed for 6 hours in PET bottles at sunlight - UVA - which
> has the same effect as Steripen, only cheaper and no batteries.
>
> I think that it is maybe not very practical to carry water for 6 hours on
> top of the backpack, horizontally, but I am interested anyway if someone
> tried this method, maybe as backup?
>
>
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