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Re: Sunlight Sterilization of Water
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Originally Posted by Moontanman
You can drink it if you want but many if not most of the organisms that make water unsafe to drink are not easily killed by UV. a UV sterilization lamp uses many orders of magnitude more intense UV than natural sunlight provides at a much higher more deadly wave length than can get through earths atmosphere. The UV that gets through earths atmosphere isn't especially sterilizing.
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I'm unable to find studies related to UV effectiveness, can you please provide some sources?
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