Originally Posted by
LDog
I follow the process outlined by Mike Clelland in Ultralight Backpackin' Tips. I carry a small eye-dropper bottle in which I premix enough for a day's use each morning. That bottle rides in my hipbelt pocket so I can fill up without taking my pack off. When I get to a water source, I drink whatever's left in my bottles, fill them up, and add drops. No waiting 5 mins for parts a&b to react cause I premixed it. I do wait 20 mins for the mix to work. I generally follow his concept about how many drops to add. Clean water coming out of a remote mountain spring may get no treatment, a remote mountain stream might get 7 drops. A puddle in a cow pasture would get the full 14 ... As long as the mix is bright yellow, it's good to go. I generally dump whatever's left over the next morning, and mix fresh. If I had lawyers, they would advise me to not recommend this process to anyone else. I would recommend buying and readin Clelland's book, and consider whether to adapt the process ...