That's a great idea!  I had thought of a solar canteen, solar panel on
the side, electrodes in a bottom cap to be removeable.
 It takes a bit of time for the CS to work?
Ken

At 12:40 PM 8/26/02 -0500, you wrote:
>In article <3.0.3.32.20020826121025.032d4...@mail.earthlink.net>,
>Ode Coyote <coyote...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Spring water has any combination and amount of mineral and metallic
>>anions you can imagine as evidenced by the very fact of its high
>>conductivity. Make CS with it and it's anyone guess as to what you'll get.
>>[but, in a pinch...at least some of the total content will be useful and
>>the rest not very harmful]
>
>It occurred to me that people travelling in parts of the world with
>questionable water quality could make a battery powered "silver wand"
>that they could stir in drinking water to make it safe to drink. I've
>heard that in India it's common for dishonest restauranteurs to refill
>water bottles from the tap and sell it as bottled water. If used on a
>short-term basis there shouldn't be any problem from ingesting small
>amounts of impurely made CS.
>
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