SAWYER PRODUCTS MINI water filter SP128 Blue

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Hydration and Drinking Keeping hydrated is vital, especially for arduous trekking and hiking. Here are the best hydration accessories including drinking flasks, bottles and water filters. The Sawyer Mini Water Filtration System is cheap, lightweight, and versatile. Offering you so many ways to clean your drinking water, not only will your tummy thank you, but so will your tent-mate. Where to Buy Sawyer Mini Water Filter First, squeezing the included 16-ounce bag puts strain on the point where the bag joins with the screw top, potentially causing it to leak contaminated water into your freshly filtered clean water. You have to be sure to either bring along an extra squeeze bag or two for when the leaks begin, or you can bring along a plastic water bottle and use this for the dirty water instead of the squeeze bag. (I’m not a huge fan of the included squeeze bags, but ultralighters tend to grab Evernew bags as a replacement.) The plastic pouch provided is flexible as it can be rolled or folded up for easy storage. There’s a plastic screw on cap to keep the pouch sealed when it’s not in use. It’s best to squeeze water from the pouch gently otherwise too much pressure can cause the pouch to split which some people discovered. Amount of water filtered: Sawyer filters up to 100,000 gallons (about 378,000 litres) whereas the Lifestraw filters at least 1000 litres only. It’s clear to see which one will last longer.

Because filtering does take so long though, I’d recommend getting one Sawyer Mini for each person in your group. They are cheap and lightweight, and each person can be responsible for filtering their own water. Underneath the travel water filter is a rubber ring attached which prevents leaks as well as damage to the plastic when it’s screwed onto a bottle or the pouch. However, screwing the filter onto anything too tightly will cause leakage. Sometimes it happens because there’s a stomach bug going around. Sometimes it happens when chowing down on questionable street food late at night with a belly full of booze. And sometimes it happens a couple days after you decided to drink straight from that perfectly clean-looking stream. Little did you know there was a moose just upstream dropping The Browns off at the Super Bowl. This last scenario is the one for which I have an extremely effective preventative solution to offer. They call it a water filter. It’s a reasonable price for a travel water filter because it’s going to last so many years since it can filter up to 100,000 gallons of water. Its slogan, ‘a lifetime of water’, is true in this case.

The Benefits of Using the Sawyer Mini Water Filtration System

The plunger is basically a syringe which you need to fill with clean water and then fit it to the nozzle on the bottom of the Sawyer water filter. It should be facing against the ‘flow’ arrow on the filter. Then with the mouthpiece of the filter open, push the plunger down so water squirts from the mouthpiece. How the Sawyer Mini Water Filtration System Compares to the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter All of our filters have been subjected to air testing three times before leaving our manufacturing facility to ensure that no harmful microorganisms can pass through our filter fibers, which no other water filtering firm can make. Filling up the Sawyer pouch or your dirty-water bottle is tough in shallow water sources. As talked about in this forum, there are all sorts of things that people use to scoop shallow water into their Sawyer pouch. Here are some ideas: At Sytner MINI we love everything to do with MINI, almost as much as we love our customers! We have state-of-the-art centres all bursting at the seams with both brand New and Approved Used MINIs. We also provide a huge range of MINI Aftersales services to keep your pride and joy running like a dream. A good water filter will provide us with safer water to drink from taps at home but a travel filter will provide us with drinkable water from a number of sources including mountain water, muddy puddles, lakes or streams.

I’m not much of an outdoorsy person but having one of these on hand is pretty useful because I use it on most of my trips. I can’t always be buying bottled water and complimentary bottled water is often limited in hotels so having this water filter allows me to drink tap water safely. I wonder why the syringe end is shaped like it can be screwed onto something then? It would have been easier to use if it could be screwed onto the nozzle end of the filter. Final Thoughts on the Sawyer Mini Water Filter System Hand Luggage Large enough for weekend trip yet small enough to be carried onto airplanes, the best hand luggage is durable, fashionable and have many compartments.

How the Sawyer Mini Water Filtration System Compares to the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter

It beats carrying big filters or bottles of water on those hiking or camping trips. Compared to other brands, this one has a lot more versatility to it. With Sawyer’s award winning travel water filter system being one of the world’s most popular lightest and smallest, there’s bound to be competitors. Another award winning travel filter is the LifeStraw Personal Water Filter which is widely used around the world. As each micron is 0.1 in size, a high percentage of bacteria, protozoa and cysts will not be able to pass through. 99.9999% to be precise. Our chances of catching illnesses such as E.Coli, cryptosporidium and salmonella are greatly reduced. Many germs are filtered out which can make us seriously ill. It’s ideal for many situations such as: