Originally Posted By: climberslacker
the water gets green, then clear and ends up tasting like diluted pool water so they are


I only wait an hour, and I use them regularly while backpacking. If you take the lid off the bottle at the end of the hour and let it "air out" for even five minutes, the chlorine taste dissipates almost completely. It ends up like tap water, or even a bit better.





Edited by jaywalke (07/28/08 12:33 AM)