"Forest Baskett" wrote in message
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I found that the inside of a Camelbak gets slimy very
quickly if left with water in it. I now store mine
on a hanger with the mouth down and with a cardboard
tube from an empty paper towel roll stuck inside to
hold it open. It dries quickly and is never slimy.

Forest


I changed the subject line.

I've found that not all water is created equal when it comes to "sliming".
When I lived in the North Bay area of California, we had water that was
mostly from Lake Berryessa and was "pre-treated". It was further treated
before being piped to the city folks, but we lived in the country so it was
sort of marginal, sometimes chlorine odor, sometimes not. Brown algae grew
in our pipes. I used a reverse osmosis filter, but still water left in a
Camelback would slime within a few days.

Where we live now, in the Sierra foothills just SW of Minden, Nevada, we
have well water that we could bottle and sell to Californians (g). This
water seems to stay pure and drinkable for months at a time. Never any slime
unless the container wasn't cleaned properly to begin with.

bumper