Using Your First Portable UV Water Filtration Kit
Published by Fred at August 8th, 2009Portable water filtration methods are many, but the most useful for tastelessly improving the quality of your water will come through ultraviolet light purification. Such models, now relatively inexpensive, can make your next camping or hiking trip much less stressing when trying to find water.
You have already had plenty of interaction with ultraviolet light- even if you aren’t aware of it. Each time you get a burn on your skin from an abundance of exposure to the Sun, you have had a bad experience with ultraviolet light. You can use this power to your will by applying it to a water source, which will in turn disrupt the organisms within the water enough to prevent them from reproducing.
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.
You have the option to use other filtration methods in addition to the portable ultraviolet water purifier. If you do indeed see a cloudy water, and don’t care to taste the free floating particles, you can use a sediment filter to block out most of the particles. Doing so before using the UV treatment is a good idea to prevent any further contamination of your drinking water.
Ideally, you should only use your ultraviolet water purification device on water. Other types of liquids could possibly benefit from the treatment, but as the liquid may not be pure the efficiency of the purification could be less than normal. The purification rate with water is above 99%, and using a liquid other than water can easily detract that percentage down by half or more, depending on 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.
Final Thoughts
Events occur that make even the most sheltered of individuals require the need of a portable ultraviolet light sterilization device. Keep one in your car, and consider buying another one for your home so that you can always have access to clean water in the event of an emergency.
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