Thirst Point

Suppliers Health Clean Water Thirst Point 

	Thirst Point
BW Technologies, Abbey Business Park, Monks Walk, Farnham, Surrey GU9 8HT			MAP
tel: (0990) 820 000

Offers a 99 gramme filter approved by the International Survivors Instructors Association. In addition to microscopic pathogens like giardia and other cysts and spores, the filter is said to remove industrial chemicals like pesticides and DDT, harmful heavy metals such as aluminium, lead, mercury etc, silt like sand and chlorine, and is said to produce odour and taste-free water. The company reports that interim results from tests from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (‘mouthpiece for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine') indicate that there is no traceable element of iodine in the water produced by its product so the risk of ingesting iodine is ‘very small'.

The filter is available from Boots or direct. Those sold through Boots does not currently include the iodinator, cost £29.99 and would last through 12 months of use. With iodinator the filter would cost £34.99. Replacement cartridges cost £18.99 without iodinator and £21.99 with.

New products are regularly in development and a new option is expected by mid 2001.