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Survival Skillset

Lesson 11 of 12

Chemicals, UV and sunlight

45 min

A strip of tablets weighs almost nothing and fits in a wallet. A UV pen fits in a pocket. A clear plastic drinks bottle and a sunny day can disinfect water with no kit at all. These are the lightest ways to make water safe, and they are excellent backups to a filter or a stove. But each has a weak point: an organism it barely touches, a kind of…

In this lesson

  • How chemical disinfection works
  • Chlorine tablets
  • What they cover
  • How
  • Common mistakes
  • Household bleach as a disinfectant
  • Which bleach
  • Dose
  • Iodine
  • What it covers
  • Who should not use it
  • Chlorine dioxide

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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