Will Iodine Tablets Ruin My CamelBak?
In the past, I have gone backpacking with some fairly expensive, heavy water purification tools. But the more I read about water safety in California's Sierras (here and here), the less I think these high-tech solutions are necessary.
Can I just drop some iodine tablets into my CamelBak?
Will the tablets:
- react with the plastic bladder and destroy it?
- stain the plastic bladder dark purple?
- make the CamelBak taste like iodine permanently?
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1 answer
- nope
- yep (actually, yellow, not purple, thanks Clare)
- Not in my experience, but I use clarifiers which remove the flavor in the water.
Also to clarify from comments, we did this for years before we started carrying a filter and it never damaged our containers. The plastic probably gets more damage from the sunlight caught during hiking than from the iodine.
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