Bobs Musings

Water purification is a must for anyone who enjoys the outdoors enough to leave civilization for a period of 24 hours or more. You would be surprised at the lack of clean water out in the wild. But with a portable ultraviolet light water purification system, you won’t have any need to fret.

Ultraviolet light is something you have become familiar with, no doubt, when you have been at the pool or the beach. You will have likely received a sun burn. While ultraviolet light may give the human body a bit of a burn, it will give bacteria and other nasty organisms a much harder time. While it doesn’t kill them, it disrupts them to the point where they may no longer reproduce.

Whether a good thing or bad, ultraviolet purification won’t affect the taste of the water you are purifying. Unfortunately a murky water may just still taste like murky water- it will just be healthy to drink. Some purification methods are able to leave a good taste, but at the cost of expense or convenience that you find with UV purification.

Different water filtration methods exist because they all bring something different to the table. UV purification would seem a lot better than other methods, but it does have one major downfall: cleaning murky water will be a problem. Sediment in the water will block the light from reaching through the water sample, and make the efficiency take a turn for the worst. Two filtration methods will be required at this point.

Water is incredibly abundant in nature- odds are you won’t have problems finding it. If not from local water sources, the rain can be trapped and captured to drink. Because the purifiers are built for water purification, and little other liquids exist in nature, you shouldn’t use the purification process for other liquids found in your home. The ultraviolet light and its efficiency may leave something to be desired due to the composition of the liquid.

As a last note of advice, it is best to agitate the water before you decide to clean it. This can be done easily by simply stirring the water before applying the purification process. This will “excite” the particles in the water so that the ultraviolet purification process can uniformly treat the entire segment of water. Otherwise materials could collect on the bottom, and prove a harder task to clean due to blockage.

In Conclusion

Portable water purifiers always come in handy- even if you aren’t much of a hiker or camper. Keep one in your trunk as an emergency store. You will be surprised at how often the device will come into usage when you need a source of fresh drinking water in a lacking environment.

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