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Does the 'Steripen' take care of chemicals like the 'Puralytics'?
"This process actually destroys contaminants, rather than capturing them and creating a hazardous waste disposal problem.

So Pyralitics destroys heavy metals etc. ? I don't think so.
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"This process actually destroys contaminants, rather than capturing them and creating a hazardous waste disposal problem.

So Pyralitics destroys heavy metals etc. ? I don't think so.
From the Puralitics website:

The Puralytics Process effectively removes the broadest range of contaminants. These include:
Chemical Contaminants - pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, petrochemicals, personal care products
Heavy metals - lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium
Micro-organisms - viruses, bacteria, protozoa, cysts
The process is environmentally and cost effective:
No chemicals or additives
No waste water
No pressure loss

I am not an employee of Puralytics
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From the Puralitics website:

The Puralytics Process effectively removes the broadest range of contaminants. These include:
Chemical Contaminants - pharmaceuticals, pesticides, herbicides, petrochemicals, personal care products
Heavy metals - lead, mercury, arsenic, and selenium
Micro-organisms - viruses, bacteria, protozoa, cysts
The process is environmentally and cost effective:
No chemicals or additives
No waste water
No pressure loss

I am not an employee of Puralytics
It seams like the metals etc. are adsorped by a special grid placed in the bag. The conversion is only done to facilitate the adsorption.

The only potential problem would be if the nanomaterial used, later shows to have sideeffects not known today.

I owe you an apology for being so negative and thank you for the info. I will try it, if its available and not too expensive.
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If I recall, Steripen's UV light sort of "castrates" the bacteriae (I cannot get the proper word, sorry), so that you drink the giardia, but it won't reproduce inside you. If you plan to use it, it's best to have their 1 liter transparent bottle to adapt a filtered cap (for dirtier water), where the rubber right over the bulb fits, so it is easier to make the water turn around. Transparent is good to see that the light is actually working.

The device may be great... but I still kind of distrust it, just something in the back of my mind that I never felt with pills or ceramic katadyn (which is great, but so slow with small ones like mine!). It's related to a time when tap water tasted like taken directly from the toilet and I got "turista", maybe the bunch just did not have need to reproduce to make the effect! 90 seconds is unbeatable compared to a 1h pill or a 100 boring pumps, but I always wonder, is this light really killing or just lighting?

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good review but at $120 thats a lot of bottled water but then again the lack of plastic waste is a bonus.
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I travelled from Ushuaia to Canada on my bike and never bought bottled water once. I drank tap water the whole way and never once got sick from it, even in the middle of nowhere. Practice makes perfect and some manage to do it and some don't, but I got lucky this time.

My dad did however buy me a going away present - a SureAqua Straw +, but I never used it (shhhh). Another option there anyway...

-SureAquaStraw+ - a straw with a designed auto cut off feature that removes 99.9999% of bacteria and 99.99% of viruses including 99.9999% of Giardia and Cryptosporidium

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