Re: Re: Filter

 I've examined the LifeStraw and think that a hiker would have to use a secondary water purification/filter system since all you can do with that is suck the water into your mouth ... its fine for drinking from putrid puddles but what do you do about cooking or filling water bottles?  And would you want your face that close to polluted water?  [Okay so you take a cup to scoop out the water first.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vuceL7DCeM is a review of the Sawyer Squeeze by Hikelight.com 


My concern has to do with placing the entire squeeze bottle in the polluted water to fill it.  Doesn't this or Wouldn't this increase the chances of Giardia?  

What I'm 'thinking' is not the nice flowing streams during the 'wet' weather but the cattle and pig and horse farm run-off streams near the AT, the 'mud puddles' when the springs are dry, etc.  Which means you'd have to expose a cup or some kind of scoop to the polluted water and then try to fill the small opening with the potential of pouring the polluted water on the hand holding the squeeze bottle. 

With my MSR Miniworks, heavy tho' it is, and much as I'd like to lighten my load, I can fill my 'dirty water' Nalgene Cantene and then filter into my 'clean water' Cantene ... if the water is cloudy, I often let it sit for a while before filtering. 

Any stories about the Sawyer pro or con and Giardia?

Coosa
 

 



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 From: casey <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2013 9:17 AM
Subject: [BackpackingLight] Re: Filter
 


  
Bota of Colorado has been making that kind of filter for close to ten years that I know of.  I use the twenty fluid ounce version and even with the filter included I believe it's lighter than a many other water bottles.  There's also a Lifestraw direct use filter at 2 1/4 ounces that works very well.

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