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Thanks, i was looking at the Sawyer as well. Have you experienced any clogging in grungy water?
That's pretty insane stuff. I wouldn't worry about chlorine getting into your intestines, and anything that can handle stomach acid, can handle the little chlorine that is left. Taste I am fully on board with though.
Boiling does break down some toxins, but its not something I'd rely on, as there is no way of knowing whats in the water, and most of the water toxins I'd be worried about, boiling doesn't touch, like cyanobacteria and similar. not worried about botulism in my water as much.
Sludge after boiling, only thing I can think of would be very high mineral content, but that much should make the water undrinkable. weird stuff man!
micropur mp1 (also chlorine dioxide) is my goto for winter for several years now - one tablet per liter and wait 4 hours. msr aquatabs is also a tablet but the instructions state only 30-minutes is required - i have yet to try this one though...a reliable friend said that micropur is just being overly cautious so they recommend a wait time of 4 hours but for warm water (non-winter) 30 minutes is really all you need...just throwing it out there.
I've only heard of long term use of iodine causing some problems in some folks.
Everyone blames the chicken, but its the salad that's more likely to get you. Know what I mean?
Vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid) neutralizes chlorine (aka bleach). I don't think it would work with iodine.
Not the first time I've been wrong.