A few days before our backpacking wedding trip to Rae Lakes—which I still owe this blog pictures of—a LifeStraw water bottle arrived for me. Now, we’d already invested in the Sawyer filtration system, which for backcountry backpacking is an ideal weight and easy-ness. But I clipped my new LifeStraw on my backpack anyway, and boy am I glad that I did. I must have drank at least an extra liter of water a day thanks to my bottle!!
It’s SO. EASY. You dip the .5L bottle in the stream, then screw the top on, and it filters as you drink water through the straw.
It’s a 2-stage filter, so there’s:
- a replaceable activated carbon capsule to reduce bad taste, chlorine and organic chemical matter for up to 100 liters (200 uses)
- a replaceable hollow fiber membrane cartridge (0.2 microns) to remove waterborne bacteria and protozoa up to 1,000 liters (2,000 uses)
- Removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria (>LOG 6 reduction), including E-Coli
- Removes 99.9% of waterborne protozoan parasites (>LOG 3 reduction), including Giardia & Cryptosporidium
I mean, yeah, you need water for your platypus and this ain’t it, but for camp? I can’t imagine anything better.
Oh wait–except LifeStraw gets even better! For each LifeStraw you purchase, one school child in a developing community receives safe drinking water for an entire school year. Right. Meets US EPA standards, BPA free, $49.95. Buy it here: http://lifestraw.eartheasy.com/products/lifestraw-go-with-2-stage-filtration
My new fave backpacking water bottle. The end.
this water bottle was gifted to me by lifestraw without any obligation to review or discuss. i really do love it.
