Sterilizing Your Water Bladder

I've been wondering how to keep my Platypus water bladder clean, especially since I've been training for a few weeks and just filling/emptying it for the weight and sometimes it takes awhile to dry completely.

The simplest method seems to be to delude 1 tbsp in 2 liters of water, pour it into your water bladder, and let sit for 10 minutes. Rinse as many times as your level of OCD calls for and hang it to dry propped open as best you can. Making your bleach mixture outside the bladder is important... you don't ever want to pour the bleach in first then add water! Doing so would give the bleach time to bond to your bladder material and then leach back into your drinking water later. Gross.

Another simple method: denture cleaner such as Polident or Efferdent. Just fill your bladder to 2/3 capacity and add 1 tablet per liter of water. Not having dentures myself, I don't know if there is any kind of taste that will linger, but it probably wouldn't be worse than a lingering bleach flavor!