Clean Drinking Water
Life may be an Adventure,
but your drinking water shouldn't be one!
Water is one of the most interesting elements in nature. It has properties without which life on earth would not be possible.
Water is the source of all
Clean Drinking Water
Life may be an Adventure,
but your drinking water shouldn't be one!
Water is one of the most interesting elements in nature. It has properties without which life on earth would not be possible.
Water is the source of all life and human civilization.
Water is the most important basic staple food and is also used in the production of almost all foods. It serves the body to accomplish vital tasks.
It works as a solvent and as transportation, helps with the excretion of metabolic products and salts through the kidneys and regulates body temperature.
Very important for Europe,
Multi-resistant germs are increasingly becoming a very big problem!
The Katadyn filter system retains particles larger than 0.2µm, including the multi-resistant germs now found in lakes and rivers in Europe. In addition, viruses that often adhere to particles larger than 0.2µm are also retained.
However, an essential point for this is the correct handling of the filter.
Water is the main component of our body.
We consist of 70% water, our head even contains 80-85% water.
In order to maintain and clean this household, it is necessary to drink enough.
The minimum an adult should drink daily is 1.5 litres of water. Minimum therefore since it is recommended to drink at least 2 to 3 liters of pure water.
That may sound a lot now, admittedly, for a "water-drinking beginner" it certainly is.
But you can learn to drink properly, and after a while it's the most normal thing in the world, and that's the way it should be...
Regular drinking is extremely necessary, especially when travelling and especially during physical exertion. It makes no sense to drink the recommended 2 to 3 litres per day at once.
Our intestines can only absorb approx. 0.2 litres of water per quarter of an hour.
So if we drink too much water too quickly, most of it would be excreted by the kidneys and therefore no longer usable by the body.
Water consumption is enormous due to heat and dry air, especially when cycling or paddling...
Did you know that 80 percent of all travel sicknesses are caused by contaminated drinking water, which affects every second long-traveller.
Or how many faecal bacteria can the supposedly clear water of a mountain stream contain?
It is therefore essential to give top priority to water and of course drinking water in particular.
It is good to know that in principle clean drinking water can be treated from any water depending on how polluted it is with more or less great effort.
Thanks to technical developments, there are now good drinking water filters on the market that can be used on the move, which reliably guarantee clean drinking water and should not be lacking in any luggage when travelling.
Everyone can reduce the risks he is exposed to from contaminated drinking water and thus endanger his health with reasonable precautions and some common sense, so that he can enjoy his trip without worries.
The different methods of water treatment are:
Microorganisms can be eliminated in this way.
Boiling is time-consuming and requires the presence of energy.
Simply put the classic pot on the flame, let the water boil for at least 2 minutes and the drinking water is ready. However, it must be noted that the boiling point of the water decreases with increasing height. This means that water must be boiled for longer to ensure that germs are reliably killed....
- Without chemistry
- No additional equipment necessary
- Very reliable with adequate cooking time
- Fuel necessary like wood, petrol, gas, etc.
- The boiling point of the water decreases with increasing height - the cooking time and thus the fuel consumption increase on the other hand.
- Taste and smell of the water are not improved in any way...
- Time-consuming treatment through boiling and cooling
- Rapid re-germination of the water
- Chemical substances remain in the water...
Disinfection with chemicals:
The microorganisms are killed with the help of chlorine, iodine, ozone or silver. Disinfection makes only sense if the water is optically clear, as suspended particles in the water bind the disinfectants and thus limit their effectiveness.
With this method, pathoge