Portable Water Purifier Comes In Very Handy In Rural And Remote Areas
You can use a portable water purifier in order to treat your water and it is most useful when living in rural or other remote locations and even during an emergency situation because it will prove to be very effective in making safe water that you can drink without fear of contamination. Even though many believe that the water that is available in the backcountry is rather clean and also potable, the fact is that such water can be quite unsafe for drinking purposes.
Ceramic Filters Or Activated Charcoal
There are a number of portable water purifiers available that make use of ceramic filters that are able to filter as many as fifty thousand liters from a single cartridge and which will remove contaminants to a very fine grain. On the other hand, there is also the portable water purifier that is based on activated charcoal filtration and the vast majority of such portable water purifiers can remove protozoa as well as bacteria, though they cannot remove viruses. In order to remove viruses, you may need to disinfect the water with the help of chemicals, or through ultraviolet light following the filtration process.
You can also use portable water purifier that use polymer and also ceramic filter though these are not so readily found today because they impart an unpleasant taste to the water that they filtered, and there were also some unfavorable health effects reported, especially after having ingested iodine over a period of time. The first portable water purifiers were actually developed during the eighties for use by the Army and they were essentially equipment for survival, after which these became available to the rest of the world.
There is however a downside to some portable water purifiers because while they may do an excellent job of filtering out the bacteria as too the fungi, the elements can themselves become a site that will be colonized by the very same bacteria and fungi. Therefore, manufacturers of the latest portable water purifiers have now started to enhance their filters through use of bonded silver metal nanoparticles to the elements so that there is no pathogens growth allowed.
There are also a number of manufacturers of portable water purifiers and among them are Aqua Sun, Noah, and First Need. Whichever brand you choose, essentially the portable water purifier consists of a portable ozone generator as well as water container and even supple tube that conduct ozone to the container from the generator.
