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What's the difference between this and water purifiers for camping, such as https://www.potableaqua.com/products/pa-with-pa-drinking-water-germicidal-tablets/ h

• jrj8ffkjr 6y ago
  This is 1 cent per liter. Your link is 50 cents per liter.
  • Johnny555 6y ago
    That's probably not a fair comparison, there's only 20mg of the active ingredient (Tetraglycine Hydroperiodide) per purifying tablet and has expensive packaging and marketing costs. Admittedly, I don't know how much that ingredient costs in bulk, but I bet if an agency wanted to produce it in bulk for widespread water purification, it'd cost a lot less than 50 cents/L
• Johnny555 6y ago
  Potable Aqua will not remove sediment from the water, if you use it to purify muddy water, it will still be muddy but without bacterial/viral contaminants. So you'll still be drinking whatever contaminants (heavy metals, etc) that are making the water muddy. So you'd still want to filter dirty water before drinking (and to remove cryptosporidium cysts which are not killed by Potable Aqua) The flocculant agent in this product binds with the sediment, making it easier to filter out with a simple cotton filter.