Smart campers always treat their drinking water.

Ways to Filter Your Camping Water

If you have ever taken a drink of untreated lake or river water, you will not do it again.  More than likely, you suffered from symptoms of stomach infections caused by pathogens such as Giardia that live in water.  Smart campers will always treat
water before drinking it.

There are three common techniques for purifying water when you are camping.
1. Boil the water.
2. Dissolve iodine tablets in the water.
3. Filter the water.

Personally, I filter my water, it taste better than boiling or adding iodine. 

Boiling and adding iodine will kill the parasites, however, you still have to drink the dead pathogens, and any other contaminate that may be in the water.  Camping water filters will remove contaminants from the water, how and what type will depend on the system that you purchase.  Make sure that you read the product's performance data sheet and that the filter is certified to remove parasites.

A camping water filter, to me is the best option.  Iodine treated water taste like iodine and boiling water for 20 minutes before you can drink it, isn't fun either, especially when you've just returned from an ten mile hike and someone knocked over the water supply. 


 

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