We’ll purify many gallons of drinking and cooking water for three crews spending a week canoeing in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park this summer. Here’s what I have learned about purifying water for a hundred or so Scouts and adults who have taken this trip over the past dozen years. We need water for drinking and cooking, and treat […]
Water Filters
Sawyer 3-Way Water Filter Review
UPDATE August 2016 I checked out the three Sawyer water filters we own for our week-long canoe trip to Canada this year. I decided to order three new elements in case our three years the old filters stopped working. All of our three-year-old filters performed flawlessly all week long – a truly amazing product. UPDATE October 2015 It’s been two […]
Katadyn Base Camp Water Filter Review
When we’re in the back country on backpacking and canoeing trips we have to purify our water. I see providing safe drinking water as a group rather than an individual responsibility. It is also something that needs to be simple, as foolproof as possible and reasonably affordable. I have tried several different filters and chemical […]
Purifying Water – How Long to Boil?
I have been saying for years that all that needs to be done for purifying water by boiling is to raise it to the boiling point and have received many skeptical looks in return. Here is a reasoned examination that explains exactly why this is true; The fact is, with a water temperature of 165 degrees F […]
Aquamira Water Treatment
Aquamira, an EPA-registered water treatment, is stabilized Chlorine dioxide an effective and safe water treatment used in municipal water treatment. The first time I used this was on a long canoe trip. We purchased Aquamira as a backup treatment method to our water filter. As it turned out the water filter failed and we used the Aquamira […]
