Boiling water is the easiest way to kill bacteria. Learn about methods of water purification when on backpacking trips in this free camping video for hiking and the outdoors.
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So because water purification systems are so important there are several different kinds that you can use. The easiest is actually boiling water. You can just boil the water and it will kill all the bacteria and things that could potentially harm you. It is not always easy to boil water and it is not always practical especially if you have a little biddy camp oven, you can't boil a whole lot of water at once. There is also two common ways to do it that are iodine tablets or bleach. The iodine tablets come in a little bottle with like a little cotton ball on top and you just put one of the tablets in there and you wait for a half an hour or whatever it says on the bottle and then the water is basically good to drink it takes care of all the stuff that's in the water. Iodine tablets taste or the iodine water after you make it it tastes kind of like rusty pipe water basically. I grew up on Texas well water so I don't even taste it but it bothers a lot of people so they can use the bleach and the bleach tablets actually make your water taste super super chlorinated which I can't stand but if you can't stand either of those tastes what people actually do is just bring Gatorade packets and that will also help you replenish the salt and everything that you need for the day and it will mask the nasty tastes of the iodine that is also pumping through filters but it is not as thorough and you really should use the iodine tablets or the bleach on top of pumping it through a filter.
