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.

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To use the Steripen Adventurer, you need to buy your own wide-mouthed water bottle to use with the purifier (I’ve found the Nalgene water bottle to be an ideal size for this), meaning you can ensure that you have enough water for a day’s hike or drive if you fill up a couple of water bottles. For me, the bottle is a little on the small side (I don’t like to travel without a one-liter water bottle), particularly as it can be hard to get the final hundred milliliters from the bottom of the bottle – so capacity is never fully 750ml. Great for outdoor recreation, hiking, camping, scouting, domestic and international travel, and emergency preparedness, the Sawyer MINI gives you a number of ways to access clean water. Pouches and Wallets In certain areas, the type of pouch or wallet you carry can make all the difference between being safe and being in danger. Here are the best pouches and wallets to conceal money, passports and other sensitive information. Ideal for outdoor recreation, hiking, camping, scouting, domestic and international travel and emergency preparednessKeep Reading: 7 Things I Learned From Travelling Plastic-Free Why travel water purifiers are a sensible economic choice The most glaring difference between Sawyer’s Squeeze and its newer Mini (and what has made the Mini a more popular product) is the price. Cleaning the Sawyer Water Filters The Grayl Geopress left my hands hurting, however, independent testing has proven that it provides some of the cleanest water post-purification, blowing the Steripen Adventurer out of the water. Like the Steripen Adventurer, you can filter water in advance as you squeeze dirty water from the provided container through the filter and into your own bottle. Micron sizes: There’s a very slight difference in the percentage of bacteria and protozoa filtered out for each water filter due to the micron size. The Sawyer mini filter is 0.1 micron size but the Lifestraw’s is slightly bigger at 0.2 which means more bacteria can get in.

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liters; the manufacturers recommend replacing the filter every three months if you’re filtering two liters per day.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.