*Katadyn-06 Manual Desalinator Watermaker
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The Katadyn-06 Desalinator is SMALLEST, Simplest Hand-Operated
Survival/Emergency Desalinator Watermaker in the World!
It's considered a miracle of modern technology.

Katadyn-06 is made for liferaft and marine use to convert ocean sea water to safe drinking water. A survival must for all ocean boat emergency kits. Each unit has been made to tough U.S. Military and Coast Guard specs.

The smallest hand-operated emergency desalinator in the world

Drifting on the open sea used to create a major dilemma: water, water, everywhere, but not a drop fit to drink. With the Survivor-06, that's affordably been changed forever. Now you can produce fresh drinking water. It's a revolutionary way to finally quit worrying about fresh water for emergencies. Next to hypothermia, dehydration is a survivor's greatest danger. Never, ever, drink sea water! All that you will accomplish is to hasten your death.

The Survivor-06 (larger producing '35 model) are the only manually-operated, hand-held, reverse osmosis (RO) systems available. Safely converts ocean sea water to fresh drinking water. No batteries, generators, or alternators required or needed.

Survivor-06 hand pump combines reverse osmosis and energy recovery technology to make pure, drinkable water from salt, brackish or contaminated fresh water. Within a few minutes you can have fresh drinking water with virtually all sea salts and other contaminants removed. You literally transform salt water into pure fresh water by pumping it though a special membrane at very high pressure, leaving the salt on the other side of the membrane.

Nothing else comes close. This is the LOWEST PRICED compact desalinator we've come across. Don't be disappointed by the slow salt to fresh water flow rate, approximately 1 ounce of desalinated water per 2 minutes. Hey, when you're on a liferaft, you only have time to kill anyway!

Small, just 5" x 2.5" and weighs only 2.5 lbs. This is an excellent emergency watermaker for your "abandon ship" bag. Constructed of corrosion-resistant materials, the Survivor 06 withstands the worst conditions and still makes 2 pints of fresh water per hour. Just pump in seawater, brackish water or fresh water and get great tasting fresh water out the other end. Idea for 4 to 12 person liferafts.

Help assure your survival and be sure to pack aboard a Katadyn-06 Desalinator. We consider it cheap life insurance.


Compact and lightweight
Recommended for emergency liferafts and individual survival kits
Trusted by militaries and individuals around the globe
Katadyn-06 Specifications:


Water Production (+/- 15%): 1 oz/2 min (890 ml/hour)
(about 1 cup in 13 minutes or 2 pints per hour)
Weight: 2.5 lbs (1.1 kg)
Height: 5" (12.7 cm)
Length: 8" (20.3 cm)
Width: 2.5" (6.4 cm)
Water Temperature: 33° to 120°F (1 C to 48.5 C)
Maximum Production Height: 10"
Salt Rejection: 98.4% average (95.3% minimum)
Average Pump Rate: 40 strokes/minute
US Coast Guard Approval Number: 160.058/7/0

I agree, the specs don't seem to back up being able to filter viruses. However, I glanced at their website and if I can cut through the "marketing-speak" correctly, I think that their filters utilize ultrafiltration(UF), and UF can filter viruses. UF is conceptually similar to reverse osmosis(RO) but lets larger particles through. RO can turn salt water into fresh water but UF cannot. Anyway, I'm not 100% sure that it uses UF but that's my take on it. It can't use RO because the website says it leaves "beneficial minerals and electrolytes" in the water. Hmmm, including the ones that make my tap water "hard" and not taste so good? Yeah...that's a selling point! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I also forgot to mention UV sterilization...
Ultraviolet light destroys bacteria, viruses and protazoa, but does not work on chemicals.

"Dare to Prepare" by Holly Deyo, has some great info & plans for water purification.

Ok, GREAT information everyone, thanks. Here's what I'm thinking of doing, see if my reasoning holds water <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Katadyn Hiker Pro or Guide Pro (preferably, but it's not listed on the Katadyn web site) as an everyday filter for hiking, camping or bug in/bug out. Micropur tabs for purification when hiking light. MSR Miox for purification on long term camping and bug in/bug out. Bleach and iodine at home for long, long term bug in.

It seems that some people have gotten lucky by filtering with coffee filters or bandannas, and by not purifying in most situations. I guess I'm paranoid enough to do both, or at least have the capability to do both.

Does this sound like a good plan covering all bases?

Note: those were used as "pre-filters" over the inlet hose of filter systems. They keep out large peices of water-muck so it doesn't clog your filter. They won't keep out the badies.

-Blast

Thanks for the clarification, that's a big difference.

i posted a long thread about these filters not to long ago: http://www.equipped.org/ubbthreads/showt...=true#Post82956