ORIGINAL: jones123
ORIGINAL: ssmith_1187
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Chlorine dioxide can take up to 4 hours to remove cysts from water, but that is cold/turbid water. Otherwise it's the same 30 minute wait time as iodine (which will not kill cryptosporidium) and tastes a heck of a lot better.
Regards,
Steve
Thanks for that. I'm going to get some, if only for the flavor. I didn't know about criipto . . .cryptospr . . heck, I can't even type it, let alone say it. It must be bad.
Learned from this forum again!
Oh Yeah! I heard of them....I think captain Kirk fought em in episode 3 maybe
I've always assumed that the alpine streams where clean enough to drink. I've never had any problems in the past, but it only takes once. I'm shopping for a filter/ tablets.