Roving Blue Q&AAnswer
Dec 18, 2023 - 10:55 AM
Instead of seeking out a portable UV water purifier, you might want to consider a portable ozone water purifier. For example, the Wisconsin company, Roving Blue, offers two such products. The Ozo-Pen, formally the O-Pen, and the GO-3 portable ozone water purifier cap. The GO-3 is a cap that fits the standard Nalgene wide mouth 1L water bottle. The Ozo-Pen looks like a writing pen and purifies water in a glass. There are three advantages ozone water purification has over UV light technology.
First of all, ozone actually kills the micro-organisms that might make you sick, UV light only inactivates them. The light makes them unable to reproduce. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have them dead. Second of all, ozone is wonderful at eliminating "off" tastes and odors from water. All the major water bottlers use ozone in their process. So, ozone water purification can make the water taste better, UV light cannot. Thirdly, water with ozone dissolved in it, is capable of cleaning purifying other things; think a scraped knee on a hike, a cutting board, rinsing a baby bottle. Water that is treated with UV light is just water.
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First of all, ozone actually kills the micro-organisms that might make you sick, UV light only inactivates them. The light makes them unable to reproduce. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have them dead. Second of all, ozone is wonderful at eliminating "off" tastes and odors from water. All the major water bottlers use ozone in their process. So, ozone water purification can make the water taste better, UV light cannot. Thirdly, water with ozone dissolved in it, is capable of cleaning purifying other things; think a scraped knee on a hike, a cutting board, rinsing a baby bottle. Water that is treated with UV light is just water.
For more information, navigate to www.rovingblue.com to lean more!
