Water disinfection in the mountains – an update of the recommendation of the Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA)

C. Albanus; L. Timmermann; V. Schoeffl; D. Hillebrandt; J. Milledge; Thomas Küpper

doi:10.5604/01.3001.0015.0507

Authors

C. Albanus Department of Occupational and Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen Technical University, Aachen, Germany
L. Timmermann 1 Department of Occupational and Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen Technical University, Aachen, Germany
V. Schoeffl Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), Berne, Switzerland; Department of Trauma Surgery, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, FRG
D. Hillebrandt Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), Berne, Switzerland
J. Milledge Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), Berne, Switzerland; University College London, UK
Thomas Küpper Department of Occupational & Social Medicine, RWTH Aachen Technical University, Aachen, Germany; Medical Commission of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), Berne, Switzerland

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.0507

Keywords:

drinking water, infection, prevention, traveller’s diarrhoea

Abstract

Safe water is still a major problem for travellers in many countries worldwide. In the last decade several new technical developments were made and more data exist about traditional procedures to produce safe water. This update includes such data with special regard to UV-C and held devices and SODIS.

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