Water purification question for a beginner
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No, there's no time limit in that sense but you need to keep water clean and if you can sterile if you're going to keep it any length of time without it going green. That isn't easy. Bugs that get in it in from the air are unlikely to do you much harm. The bugs that do you harm are mostly those that have been carried from other people and animals. Once they're killed by boiling they stay dead.
No, there's no time limit in that sense but you need to keep water clean and if you can sterile if you're going to keep it any length of time without it going green. That isn't easy. Bugs that get in it in from the air are unlikely to do you much harm. The bugs that do you harm are mostly those that have been carried from other people and animals. Once they're killed by boiling they stay dead.
I recently found out about flocculants via the proctor and gamble 'water for africa' campaign. They take all the suspended matter out the water, chemical, organic, toxic, so if thats all out of the water, nothing can regrow, top things, suprised I never heard of them before. You cant see the nutrients always, and they don't kill bacteria already present.
Just remember once purified don't put it in a contaminated bottle... sounds obvious but you'd be amazed. Especially when purifying water in the collecting bottle. Untreated water stays on the outside places like the lid threads and can make you sick.
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