Water Purification Tablets

Somewhere between a Scottish burn that looks impossibly clean and a hostel tap in a country where the water infrastructure has seen better decades, most of us have had the same nagging thought: is this actually safe to drink? Chlorine dioxide water tablets are the answer a huge number of hikers, backpackers and prepared travellers … Read more

Somewhere between “I’ll just drink the tap water, it’ll be fine” and a three-day bout of the kind of stomach trouble that turns a beach holiday into a bathroom residency, there’s a small, unglamorous hero: the humble purification tablet. Water purification tablets for travel are compact chemical treatments — usually chlorine dioxide or NaDCC-based — … Read more

There’s a particular flavour of dread that comes with turning on a tap and getting nothing, or worse, a text from your water company telling you to boil everything before you drink it. It happened to roughly 16,000 households in Brixham in 2024, and it will happen again somewhere in Britain before this year is … Read more