EMKAVEC filtration bottles and cholera!

[Alf Tupper]

The bottle only works if you drink from it.

Pour the water into something else to drink from and you risk cholera or heavy metal poisoning, as I have just found out.

It's recorded in the fandom wiki, but just mentioning it to try and stop any other players making this 'mistake'.

[Power Sword]

Seems like a bug

[Alf Tupper]

Originally posted by Power Sword:

Seems like a bug

Possibly so - it's not what I would expect in real life.

[My longest ree ever]

Great PSA

[G15]

In real life that's how the filtration bottle works. The mouth piece is actually a straw and it touches the bottom of the bottle inside of the bottle and when you fill the bottle, you suck from the straw and it filters like 99% of different pathogens. If you open the bottle and pour it's contaminated liquids to another bottle or container, the pathogen follows, contaminating the item and liquid. There might be a way to pour the water from the filtering straw, but i don't think so, because it usually needs a vacuum.

So this is not a bug, it's just realistic way, on how to use filtering bottle and how it works and many filtering bottles use this kind of build.

[Alf Tupper]

Originally posted by A15:

In real life that's how the filtration bottle works snip

Thank you - I should have included that I've used filtration bottles/straws for real; yes, you do need pressure behind the water to get more than a drip drip drip to go through, as it works on very very small holes that are smaller than the pathogens.

Great flow can be achieved in real life by squeezing a flexible container or bottle, artificial pressurisation from an external pump, or using a greater head of water to let gravity do its thing.

I think the main thing is players know not to pour water out and expect it to be drinkable. Grateful for your information and thoughts mate.