Are you traveling and wondering if water is safe to drink in an area away from home? The basic answer is dependent on where you live. If you live in a modern industrialized area with municipal water treatment and distribution, there is a good chance that your tap water is safe to drink. Most municipal water systems utilize chlorine dioxide in the processing and distribution of their water.
Chlorine dioxide has the ability to purify water, making it safe to drink. It kills all known pathogens, bacteria, parasites, and viruses that are potentially harmful and commonly found in water.
Not all municipal water systems use chlorine dioxide, and they may use some other water purifier, like chlorine or iodine to purify their water. If you are potentially drinking tap water in these municipalities, you may be exposed to Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and other hard-to-kill pathogens, which are only killed by chlorine dioxide.
Symptoms of Cryptosporidium and Giardia Exposure
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- Watery diarrhea.
- Stomach cramps or pain.
- Dehydration.
- Nausea.
- Vomiting.
- Fever.
- Weight loss.
Cryptosporidium and Giardia symptoms may last from 2 to 6 weeks.
If you are venturing out into the wilderness and you will be relying on surface water access for water ingestion for hydration, you are advised to purify the water before drinking it. Most water in the world, in wells, lakes, streams, and rivers, has been heavily compromised. When you test naturally sourced water for contaminants, you will find them.
Locality does make a difference. If you have lived in your local area for a while, your body will have built up immunity to some of the most common pathogens found in the local water. This can catch travelers to the area off-guard because they see the locals drinking untreated water from the tap which makes visitors think that the water is safe to drink.
Travelers are surprised that they are negatively affected by drinking water when locals are unaffected. Commonly, visitors find themselves getting sick, probably with a form of Traveler’s Diarrhea (TD).
You could drink bottled water, but may be faced with the moral dilemma of contributing to the excess plastic bottle debris that is plaguing our planet, or you may find yourself in a remote enough area where you will find yourself having little or no access to bottled water.
DIY Water Purification
Do-it-yourself water purification just makes sense. By taking full responsibility for creating your own safe drinking water, you know that your water is safe to drink, and just like the most sophisticated water purification facilities, chlorine dioxide water purification drops are the most economical and effective method of purifying water for safe drinking.
Other methods of filtering water may be adequate because a good filtration system will defeat most harmful bacteria and parasites, but not the hard-to-kill parasites or viruses. Chlorine dioxide is especially effective in killing the pathogens that pass through the filtration process.
Two-part chlorine dioxide water purification drops are the most cost-effective method of purifying water on site. Travel Packs are smaller bottles that are approved for air travel for purifying water while interstate traveling or abroad. These convenient lightweight bottles fit easily in a pocket or purse for use while traversing any ware you may be visiting.
Chlorine dioxide Travel Packs enable the user to purify water while exploring the outdoors to make standing water safe to drink on demand, if and when necessary.
Wait Times for Chlorine Dioxide Purification
While you can purify water on demand, water purification with the two-part chlorine dioxide water purification drops does require some pausing and waiting periods before you can drink the water you have purified.
Here are some necessary wait times:
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- 30 Seconds
The first waiting period occurs when you mix equal drops of Part 1 and Part 2 in a clean dry glass. Once the drops are placed in the bottom of a glass, you swirl the drops together and allow them to activate for 30 seconds. After the activation has occurred, you can add water.
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- 15 Minutes
To eliminate most contaminants, allow the activated chlorine dioxide drops to disinfect the water by letting it perform this function over a 15-minute waiting period.
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- 2 Hours
If you are expecting to fully eliminate all contaminants including the hardest-to-kill parasites and viruses, then allow the chlorine dioxide to continue to work in the water for 2 hours prior to drinking.
Depending on where you are and what microorganisms you may be battling, you may need to allow for adequate wait times to kill the most aggressive pathogens, up to 2 hours.
Outdoor Sports
Many outdoor sports, especially hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, and boating enthusiasts may require accessing available surface water. This water is untreated and full of contaminants. To be safe, outdoorsmen should take the precaution of purifying this water prior to drinking it.
Chlorine dioxide water purification drops are available at outdoor sports stores for this reason. Perfect for any outdoor adventure, the two-part Travel Pack is lightweight, compact, and fits easily in your pack. If you are dipping your glass into the water, wipe off the exterior, rim, and cap, as this moisture will not be decontaminated by the water inside the container.
Besides glass, alternatively, one could use PET or medical grade plastic for mixing and using as a water bottle. Do not use a metal container. Four drops from each bottle, Part 1 and Part 2 will treat 1 to 1.5 liters of water.
Health Benefits of Chlorine Dioxide
There are obvious health benefits to drinking water purified by chlorine dioxide. Currently, was are often exposed to toxins that never existed 100 years ago. The level of accumulated toxicity in the average human body is near critical, still, we seem to survive for quite a while under these circumstances.
Our bodies accumulate an alarming number of varieties of pathogens and viruses, some of these our bodies can develop an immunity to, others not so much. Slowly but surely our ability to rebuild, regenerate, and self-heal is compromised.
Our autoimmune system is so overwhelmed by fighting off these pathogens to survive, that there is no life energy left for restorative processes.
What if We Could Kill the Pathogens That Plague Our Bodies?
Posing the question, “What if we could kill the pathogens that plague our bodies?” is just what occurred to Health Coach, Paris Humble, from Port Angeles, Washington, who is convinced that chlorine dioxide does just that. Chlorine dioxide kills the bad bacteria, parasites, and viruses that have taken up residency inside us.
She came to this conclusion by no accident, as she grew up in the House of Humble, and watched to see what happened after her father accidentally discovered that chlorine dioxide water purification drops did have miraculous health benefits.
Her father, Jim Humble, stumbled onto the discovery while on a mining expedition deep in the Amazon jungle in 1996. His workers became deathly ill from malaria. Well out of radio signal range, Humble sent two runners to get help. Knowing they would probably be 2 days out, Paris’ father did the only thing he could do, and that was to try to keep the men hydrated by giving them chlorine dioxide-purified surface water. (This was the same water that might have been responsible for malaria.)
Miraculously, the men recovered quickly and completely, within 4 hours of Humble’s hydration therapy. They were hungry, ate, and returned to work as if nothing had happened. Following the expedition, after returning home to the United States, Paris saw her father dedicate his life to the research of the chlorine dioxide compound and the positive effects it might produce in sick people.
Paris recalls that every person who tried her father’s chlorine dioxide, which he nicknamed MMS (short for miracle mineral solution) reported miraculous results, most claiming that they had been “cured” from incurable diseases that they had been told by their doctors that they would die from.
First, it was a small group of volunteers, then her father was summoned to Africa to help the Red Cross deal with a sudden outbreak of malaria. Her father returned home with stories of miraculous stories that rivaled those of his experience in the Amazon. The number of individual stories climbed from thousands to millions, and Paris reports that there was not one person who did not claim miraculous results.
Paris’ father’s research is documented and reported in his book, MMS Health Recovery Guidebook by Jim Humble (2016), which also includes his suggested protocols for a wide variety of maladies and diseases using chlorine dioxide.
Paris watched as her father was attacked by the FDA’s media defamation campaign which she feels was fueled and financed by the pharmaceutical companies. They accused her father of being a crazy church leader who was bilking the sick and elderly and instructing his followers to drink bleach. Paris says, “It was awful and breaks my heart.”
Nonetheless, Jim Humble pressed on and continued to spread the word about MMS/chlorine dioxide.
Paris went on to become a successful health coach and often reinforces her father’s work when it comes to the health benefits of cleansing one’s body of pathogens by using chlorine dioxide. To help carry on her father’s work, Paris Humble released her new book, Healthy Alternative Chlorine Dioxide Uses Non-pharmacological Health Restoration (2022) as she continues her work as a health coach and is in the process of writing another book about one’s ability to increase pleasure in life.
