[pct-l] Aqua Mira

[dwaycott at yahoo.com (Daryl Waycott)]

Hi Blisterfree,

I haven't ever smelt or tasted anything other than the
taste of normal tap water from using Aqua Mira. I used
it for the whole of the PCT.
I think that in the test that you have done, you would
have caused extra chlorine to be generated because you
were using tap water. There's a good page about Aqua
Mira here:
http://www.bushwalking.org.au/FAQ/FAQ_Water.htm and it
recommends that you never use it on chlorinated water
i.e. most tap water.

Hope this helps, I personally would never use anything
else - after all it's just like drinking tap water,
weighs a lot less than any filter and kills lots more
than ever iodine can.

Daryl
(Rockhopper) 
--- Brett <blisterfree@isp01.net> wrote:
> Can anyone who's used the water treatment Aqua Mira
> during 
> an extended hike comment on whether or not it is
> normal to 
> detect an odor and taste when treating water at the
> standard 
> 7 drop dosage?
> 
> I just did a try-out here in the kitchen, using
> filtered tap 
> water, and following the A.M. directions to the
> letter. 
> Normally my filtered tap has no discernable flavor
> or odor. 
> However the Aqua Mira-treated filtered tap, even
> given 
> several hours from the time of treatment, still has
> a very 
> noticeable smell of chlorine. It's rather like the
> pungency 
> of walking into the pool area at the local YMCA. And
> the 
> taste, although not of chlorine per se, has a
> certain edge 
> to it. And of course, taste and smell are closely
> linked, so 
> perhaps the odor is having an influence on my
> overall 
> enjoyment of the treated beverage.
> 
> I recognize that the product claims to contain no
> "free 
> chlorine." Might it be possible, however, that the
> chlorine 
> dioxide is not breaking down properly in this
> particular 
> test, perhaps as a result of the water already being
> largely 
> free of "stuff" to oxidize (or whatever the heck
> actually 
> happens)? Or is the odor I'm detecting an unheralded
> reality 
> of using the product?
> 
> Granted, as a long-distance hiker, for better or
> worse my 
> sense of smell "goes to 11." But then, who needs the
> 
> so-stated health benefits of Aqua Mira (over iodine)
> more 
> than someone who has to treat a lot of water over a
> long 
> period of time?
> 
> - blisterfree
> 
> 
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