What water purification tablets do you advise me to buy?
I saw oasis ones or potableaqua, the 1st are cheaper
Also I'll buy a Sawyer mini
What water purification tablets do you advise me to buy? I saw oasis ones or potableaqua, the 1st are cheaper
What water purification tablets do you advise me to buy?
I saw oasis ones or potableaqua, the 1st are cheaper
Also I'll buy a Sawyer mini
>sawyer mini
don't they have bad rep for clogging up
What's better then?
For what I've seen it's the best
The Squeeze is better than the Mini, supposedly. The flow rate is higher and the Mini has the reputation of clogging easily. The Katadyn BeFree is another option comparable to the Sawyer Squeeze to look into.
>tablets
I’ve heard they leave a funky after taste. Aquamira liquid drops do not.
>Katadyn
i basically have the model before this one (https://www.katadyngroup.com/us/en/8019857-katadyn-hiker-pro-us-transparent~p6724) same thing but no quick connects. It also lets you hang a 3L bladder of shit water and gravity filter it in a few hours/overnight into a secong 3L bag so you have water for the morning
ive replaced the filter prob a dozen times over the 4 years ive owned it.
What's the consensus on a milbank and boiling or tabs after. I'm a boy on a budget who isn't concerned with speed. At least not for now.
Do not buy a mini, buy the normal squeeze. The mini kind of sucks. I have both.
i have tried purification tablets only once and it tasted like concentrated pool water
we pulled straws on who goes to fill our canteens on a hot day march and dude filled them with swamp water, nothing wrong with swamp water but these had only 50% of water in them and it was like drinking mud
Potable Aqua is my go-to. Purifies in 30 minutes or so, then just wait an extra 5 minutes for the neutralizer tabs to do their work and you’re good. I’ve never gotten any particularly bad taste from it either, since I always use the neutralizer tabs.
For filters I actually like the Survivor Filter, it’s a pump filter but it doesn’t cost a mint like a Katadyne. On the other hand it’s not as nice as a Katadyne, but still plenty good enough. I prefer it to squeeze filters because you can still get as much water as you need even if the source you’re dealing with is only an inch deep or whatever. Takes a while to filter a lot of water though.
Grayl Geopress is way better than a sawyer filter. You almost instantly get 24 oz of clean drinkable water, which you can use for whatever you need instead of having to suck it through a filter.
Only downside is they are relatively heavy, bulky, low capacity, difficult to backflush, and can’t easily be used in a group setting
I have potable aqua in my bag, they don't add much weight or bulk no reason not to have them.
didn't mean to reply to you.
I bought one of these solely for the fact that it removes heavy metals where I don't think even the sawyer squeeze does that
if you've ever hiked in areas where mining was rampant and mercury levels are present
Well Ill be damned. I didn't know it could dot that, and thought it was something not possible.
>sawyer mini
i seem to be the only person who's mini lasted a long time without clogging.
msr and katadyn use good filters.
sawyer squeeze clogs way less but idk how much i trust it.
it uses absorbent medium so it degrades over time. avoid absorbent mediums with water filtration in general.
A little unconventional, but I like to use non-scented chlorine bleach. It's very cheap and quick, and the taste is not that bad.
This. Just use bleach. I don't know why people bother with any other method.
homie just boil it
I spot with my little eye a Mil-Tec Assault pack.
Thinking about buying the Katadyn Vario Microfilter, do any anons here have any experiences with it? would you recommend for or against it?