{"id":480,"date":"2006-05-29T07:56:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T12:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=480"},"modified":"2006-05-29T07:56:30","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T12:56:30","slug":"a-look-at-the-miox-water-purifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/05\/29\/a-look-at-the-miox-water-purifier\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at the Miox water purifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalparkstraveler.typepad.com\/national_parks_traveler\/2006\/05\/msrs_miox_purif.html\">National Parks Traveler on that battery-powered Miox gadget: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The beauty of this pen-shaped unit is that it&#8217;s so lightweight you won&#8217;t know your carrying its 3.5 ounces. The downfalls? Well, for starters it doesn&#8217;t filter your water, so if you&#8217;re not careful while filling a bottle prior to purifying it you could wind up with all kinds of interesting things floating around in your drinking water. Oh, they&#8217;ll be dead and purified, but do you really want a meal in your water?<br \/>\n<P> The second problem I noticed might simply have been operator failure in over-doing the purification. Whatever the cause, the water had a strong, chlorinated taste. Kinda reminded me of a two-tablet system I was introduced to when I first started backpacking way back in the last century &#8212; you had one tablet to purify the water, and another to give it a palatable taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The rest of the post gives the impression that there&#8217;s not much of an advantage over carrying tablets or small bottles of chemical purifiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Parks Traveler on that battery-powered Miox gadget: The beauty of this pen-shaped unit is that it&#8217;s so lightweight you won&#8217;t know your carrying its 3.5 ounces. The downfalls? Well, for starters it doesn&#8217;t filter your water, so if you&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/05\/29\/a-look-at-the-miox-water-purifier\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}