Yes, a great product Kooka, been using it in my water tanks for years. 

Kooka wrote:

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Chlorine residual tastes terrible!!

And smells!

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It's used to purify most of the drinking water on the planet and has been for many decades.

• Chlorine is a poison.
• From Google:
• Increased Risk of Cancer. ...
• Hazardous for Your Children's Health. ...
• Cell Damage. ...
• Increases the Risk of Asthma. ...
• Results in Heart Problems. ...
• Bad Taste and Odor.

A small amount of poison is a better risk than Cryptosporum and Giardia in the water.

Same with fluoride.

 

If you don't like the idea of H2O2 after reading the blurb - don't buy it!

 

IMHO the water is sweet and fine compared with chlorine products. I know of a very

prominent bottled water supplier that uses H2O2 in huge quantities. No chlorine.

 

Kooka

Kooka wrote:

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• Chlorine is a poison.

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Ah ha! You're a zealot. Now I understand :)

Most medicines can be poisonous, and most poisons can be medicines. Just depends on dose doesn't it? 

Aussie Paul. 

-- Edited by aussie_paul on Tuesday 18th of September 2018 05:57:28 PM

No way I would putting that stuff in my tanks

UV works well also , with sediment filtering prior , and fine carbon filtering after uv treatment , we've been using this type of system at home for years for our tank water 

As a side note our son used a portable " camelbak" 1 litre uv unit when he did Kokoda and worked well , my daughter took same unit to Vietnam and no worries there too .... seems to do the trick :)

-- Edited by kesa32 on Tuesday 18th of September 2018 09:03:38 PM

There is another option if we don't use these "poisons" eg chlorine & fluoride in the way that we're instructed to for our continuing good health. It is not pleasant & this forum would be down one or more members!

I saw that Kooka's company recommends it for rain water tanks!
I lived in Adelaide for 21 years, Ceduna for 15 & only drank rain water - UNTREATED! The tap water was terrible! The biggest hazard we faced at Ceduna was mice (in the mice plagues) getting in the tanks, forcing us to empty the water. When I moved to Darwin in the late 60s, the tap water was not treated but someone with "brains" decided that birds could poop in the water & it had to be chlorinated. So they added chlorine (by the ton we thought) to clean out the pipes, etc - you could smell a running tap from 10m away!!

What happened to the old solution of adding raspberry cordial to the caravan tanks?

Gday...

Don't fret kooka (I don't know ya name coz you fail to provide it) but all interactions between folk will elicit other's opinions which, most often, will be as strongly rooted as your own.

Hang in there, give this mob some time and you will find the 95% of us are almost human and often respond with our own opinions from experience.

Ya'll git used to us.

I offer the following -

opinion

1. a belief or judgment based on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
2. a personal view, attitude, or appraisal.
3. the formal expression of a professional judgment.
4. the formal statement by a judge or court of the principles used in reaching a decision on a case.
5. a judgment or estimate of a person or thing with respect to character, merit, etc.

opinionated

Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.

Cheers - OH and welcome to the forum - it's been an interesting week - John

Ultraviolet is a viable method of making water biologically safe, but the power consumption required is typically too much for most RV situations. Reverse osmosis has the same draw back.
Many other chemical biological controls work too.
Chlorine treatment is the most common method world wide and is very cheap and very effective.
Most methods benefit from final filtering using fine active carbon filtration.

Cheers,
Peter

Indeed UV is used in some areas for tap water purification a friend who works in the water industry informs me.

The major problem with UV for our application as I see it is:

1 - Power consumption, as Peter mentioned

2 - It really needs very well filtered water to give the UV a chance of getting to all the bugs. Given that e-coli is 0.5um long and viruses may be only 25nm they don't need much particulate in order to be hidden from the UV.  I see UV as being really useful for things such as Asian tap water purifying.

Chlorine is still, by far, the best way to kill most bugs (NB. although not Cryptosporidium and Giardia) and both the scientific evidence and common sense experience over more than 100 years support this assertion.

kesa32 wrote:

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Agree chlorine is a cheap viable solution for killing the nasties and dissipates quickly , was just putting uv out there as another solution :)

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 Yes, chlorine breaks down and disappears quite quickly, that is a plus, but also a down side because after it has broken down, the protection ceases.

The rate of break down is increased with poorer quality water and with higher temperatures. The water in RV water tanks can become quite warm in many situations and that provides a great breeding ground for nasties, especially when there is any contamination in the water and even in complete darkness.

We always re dose our water with a full compliment of new chlorine any time we pick up water and use extra chlorine if the water is at all suspect. Essentially, if you can not detect any chlorine by smell, there is probably not enough left, because it has all gone.

For those that think bugs will not grow in water in the dark, on at least 2 occasions the mid north of SA and the Peninsulas have had contaminated water emergencies with their piped drinking water in the summer when bugs have grown in the pipes between the Morgan chlorination and pumping station on the river Murray and the towns that use that water along the way. The authorities increase the chlorination concentration in summer to prevent this.

A good active carbon filter will remove any remaining chlorine (and lots of other stuff) after the pump and before the taps. They provide good tasting, safe water.

Cheers,

Peter

Hi Kooka, thanks for the post. Hydrogen peroxide is also great for cleaning your ears. 2 mils in an eye dropper or in this case ear dropper, dissolves wax and is safer than digging into your head with foreign objects. It crackles and bubbles as it dissolves gunk.

Pete

Peter_n_Margaret wrote:

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kesa32 wrote:

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Agree chlorine is a cheap viable solution for killing the nasties and dissipates quickly , was just putting uv out there as another solution :)

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For those that think bugs will not grow in water in the dark, on at least 2 occasions the mid north of SA and the Peninsulas have had contaminated water emergencies with their piped drinking water in the summer when bugs have grown in the pipes between the Morgan chlorination and pumping station on the river Murray and the towns that use that water along the way. Peter

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Can you provide some fact to back this up Peter, I do have a recollection of something in the very distant past, however can find nothing of relevance online.

As a matter of interest York Peninsula is provided with water via a pipe line from Swan Reach to Stockwell, not Morgan, completed around 1970.

It does get a little tiring hearing horror stories re SA water related by visitors, that for some reason South Australian residents don't seem to experience.