Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets
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Description of Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets
Our Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets make questionable water bacteriologically suitable to drink. Easy to use-water is ready in 30 minutes. One 50 tablet bottle treats 25 quarts of water. Ideal for hiking, backpacking and travel. Perfect addition to your first aid or travel kit.Used worldwide by campers, hikers, militaries, emergency organizations, and anyone else who needs to drink water of questionable quality, these Portable Aqua iodine tablets will disinfect contaminated drinking water in a pinch. The tablets--which are intended for short-term or limited emergency use only--make most water bacteriologically suitable for drinking, proving effective against Giardia lamblia when used as directed. Each Potable Aqua tablet contains 20 mg of Tetraglycine Hydroperiodide (TGHP), which liberates 8 mg of titratable iodine when released into water. Within 30 minutes, the iodine will have penetrated the cell walls of the microorganisms, rendering them inactive and making the water safe to drink. Potable Aqua tablets also neutralize the iodine aftertaste and color, helping your drinking water taste better.
About Potable Aqua
Potable Aqua iodine water disinfection tablets were developed by Harvard University in conjunction with the U.S. Army in the 1940s, and have been used by the military for emergency drinking water disinfection for more than 50 years. Pharmacal currently supplies the U.S. Military with Potable Aqua for its emergency drinking water needs. Potable Aqua is also widely used by campers, backpackers, and various other militaries around the world. With the addition of the Potable Aqua Traveler and Chlorine Dioxide Water Purification Tablets, Potable Aqua continues to meet the ever-changing needs of today's outdoor enthusiast.
Sports reviews of Potable Aqua Water Treatment Tablets
Customer Review: Not what I expected
Sport shop rating: 2 Stars
Having used water purification tablets before, I expected this product to be similar. It is not. It has some crazy mixing formula that needs to be followed.Customer Review: Wretched, putrid, vile....
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
Twenty-five plus years ago I bought a bottle of these vile little tablets to take on a weekend backpacking trip. Water was plentiful in the area but the quality was unknown. I filled my first canteen from a stream and added "Non-potable Aqua". The result was so unpleasant, I would have preferred dehydration or diarrhea to the taste of the water treated with this awful stuff.
These things make water foul, putrid, undrinkable. Luckily I had no ill effects from drinking raw stream water during my weekend. I could not handle the iodized pill-water. Immediately upon returning home, I bought a filtration system and used it for the remainder of my backpacking endeavors. The canteen I used with these pills never lost the iodine smell so I had to trash it.
I could be overly sensitive to the iodine taste. I don't know. I do know I will never forget the experience and I will NEVER EVER EVER EVER allow these pills anywhere near me again. Immediately do an Amazon search for portable water filtration systems and buy one of those instead of these horrible pills.
Customer Review: Dont buy
Sport shop rating: 1 Stars
The seller for this product is rasing the price on what should be an inexpensive product. Take the time and google search the product online and you will see that this should be sold for half the price of what it is listed for on here. Save some money and buy elsewere.