| Katadyn MicroPur Purification Tablets - In Your Choice of Styles | 
| Brand: Katadyn
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ASIN: B000R2ND6O
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| Features:
| • | Only EPA-registered purification tablets effective against viruses, bacteria and cysts, including | | • | The same chlorine dioxide treatment used to disinfect municipal water supplies. | | • | One MicroPur tablet treats 1 full quart of water. | | • | Available in packs of 20 or 30 tablets. |
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Product Description
Easy to use and taking up almost no space at all, MicroPur tablets are ideal water treatment solutions for lightweight backpacking, travel or emergency use. Katadyn's MicroPur Tablets are the only EPA-registered purification tablets on the market effective against bacteria, viruses and cysts, including Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Each MicroPur tablet releases sufficient chlorine dioxide, the substance used throughout the world to disinfect municipal water supplies, to treat 1 full quart of water. MicroPur leaves virtually no taste, so you can enjoy fresh-tasting water. Available in packs of 20 or 30 tablets, the individually-wrapped MicroPur tablets have no expiration date.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 6
Tastes better then iodine, but takes a lot longer. June 29, 2009
J. Surgeon (Windsor, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
These tablets take 4 hours and water must be kept dark for that time. It tastes better then iodine tablets, but iodine only takes about 20 minutes. They do the job, at least I have no reason to believe they failed, but you must factor the requirements into your situation.
 Drinkable water that smells like the pool. December 17, 2008
L. Jun (NYC)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
It works well but the treated water will smell bleach-y. Taste and smell managaeble and not too bad to drink. Also, preferable to dysentery or buying several bottles of water a day.
Effective, doesn't make water taste too bad September 30, 2007
David (Hudson, OH USA)
47 out of 48 found this review helpful
I've used these several times over the past year, and compared to other chemical water treatments they're relatively painless. You don't have to force yourself to down chemical-tasting water.
To the earlier reviewer who mentioned treatment time: 4 hours is a worst-case scenario mandated by the EPA for killing one type of organism (cryptosporidium) in water that is both very cold and very dirty. All bacteria and viruses, except cryptosporidium and giardia, are killed in 15 minutes (even in cold water). Cryptosporidium and giardia are both killed in 30. In cold, very dirty (cloudy) water, it can take 4 hours for a full crypto kill.
 devil in the details August 13, 2007
Charles Osborne (Martinsville, Virginia United States)
14 out of 28 found this review helpful
No one has mentioned that one must treat the water for four hours to get the sterility touted. That's a long time to wait for a drink!
Lightweight and effective... April 6, 2007
wenfei (Texas)
38 out of 42 found this review helpful
One has to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of this product based on one's needs or requirements. IMO, the pros and cons are...
Pros: These tabs weigh only a few ounces, but can treat up to 20 liters.
They are very effective at killing off viruses, bacteria, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium(EPA accepted). This product is great if you can't build a fire or boil water.
Cons: One tab for one liter so unless you stock up, you can only support one person for 5 days if you use 1 gal. or 4 liters per day for roughly $10. Compare this to 96oz(~56000 drops) of Clorox for $4 and it only takes 16 drops to treat 1gal. of water. Katadyn claims that their tabs leave virtually no taste to the water, but I disagree. There is a very strange taste in the water that is less tolerable than chlorine IMO. Minimum treatment time is 30 minutes for both.
Alternative: Boil water for 5 minutes at any desired quantity at virtually no cost! :)
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