Welcome to the Hunt Backcountry Podcast today.

This is episode number 289 and we're talking about water in the backcountry.

Obviously, if you are heading into a backcountry especially on an extended hunt, water becomes

important to you to survive in the backcountry.

And as hunters, many of us are familiar with and have preferences for different types of

water treatment and some of us depending on where we are may not treat water at all and

just drink straight from natural sources.

We talk about those topics and understand the risks of waterborne illness, the effectiveness

of different treatment methods and much more.

Our guest today is Dr. Vincent Hill.

He is the chief of the waterborne disease prevention branch for the CDC, the Centers

for Disease Control.

So Vincent is an expert all about waterborne disease and really can help inform us much

more than a lot of the basic speak out there.

So it's easy to go online and get resources or hear from product manufacturers about

their marketing and their water treatment.

But we kind of wanted to go deeper than that and really understand what the risks are

and then how effective the different treatment methods may be.

So as you'll hear, Vincent, the CDC, they do not discuss specific products but we do

discuss methods.

So we'll talk about filtration versus purification.

We will talk about chemical treatment versus filtration.

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