I'm sure the sales guy told you the iodine kills the micro-organisms, and the charcoal removes the iodine.

The trouble I have with that proposition is wait times - the mechanism draws water through faster than the normal wait times one would have when simply treating the water with the chemicals.

I hope for your sake that the filter works differently than that...
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