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Originally Posted by The Reaper
I take it that nobody but the TS knows anything about water purification?
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Well, for years in the back country I used to use a saturated iodine solution (pure USP-grade iodine crystals in solution in an antique little glass vial w/ a ground glass stopper).
During a trip with my son and two of his ten-year-old fiends (that is not a typo) I learned that iodine doesn't kill giardia. As a consequence of an...explosive...ride home I had to replace the back seat of my car. Up until that point I had thought giardia was a mountain thing for some reason. I was not popular with the Mommies.
That little experience taught me to
filter and then disinfect. With your MSR Miox you don't need to do that -- it's rated to kill crypto and giardia without prefiltering -- pretty cool.
Now I use a PUR Scout to filter camping water before adding the iodine. The Scout is kinda old technology but it pumps easily.