How is the water purified?
All water used for cooking and our camp staff purifies drinking either by boiling or by the use of Iodine. (At high altitudes, Iodine is safer than boiling since water boils at lower temperatures.) You can buy bottled water while in Kathmandu and you will be provided boiled or filtered water on the trek. Always brush your teeth in treated or bottled water. As an extra precaution, you can add your own Iodine tablets to your treated water while on the trek.
Related Questions
- What to do if the water then is not purified? Is water still needs to be boiled or treated chemically to destroy the remaining bacteria that would have made it through the filtering process?
- Why must my tadpole be raised ONLY in bottled spring or deep-well water; when my frog can live in tap water purified with Water Crystals?
- Isn distilled water a purified form of water and therefore more healthy?
