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I'm interested in which Water Filters travellers are using, tell me which you are using good points and bad, cost, and availability of repair and service parts and any general comments you have, and if you take water purification tablets. Many thanks Skip
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I'm interested in which Water Filters travellers are using, tell me which you are using good points and bad, cost, and availability of repair and service parts and any general comments you have, and if you take water purification tablets. Many thanks Skip
I bought a Drink-Safe inline water filter for use in a Kriega reservoir with quick release valves. I use the Kriega polyurethane bladder inside a larger Kriega backpack.

I used this set-up in India and Sri Lanka and I'm still alive. I didn't have any stomach problems but I can't be more scientific than that.

Pros:
Excellent for individual filtered water on the move.
The filter is economical as you can stop buying bottled water.
It's light and doesn't add much to your kit.
It's a fairly unbreakable piece of plastic requiring little maintenance during its lifetime.
It can be removed; turning the reservoir back to standard in locations where you trust the water
The best part of the Kriega reservoir is that the entire end opens; making thorough cleaning very easy.

Cons:
Drawing water through the reservoir tube is slightly harder with a lower flow rate.
Not the best system for producing larger quantities of safe water.
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I always bring one just in case, but never really need it. Better to have it and not need it than to not have it and needing it.

It's the Katadyn Hiker because of it's cleaning requirements and because I don't like fragile carbon ones.
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Same company Drink-Safe Systems but I have the 'Survivor' - the one that looks like a bike/sports bottle.

Goes in a pocket and is very easy to use anywhere at all. Gives me 500ml in about 30 seconds.
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The Katadyn Pocket Filter is still the gold standard as far as I'm concerned. It's expensive and a bit slow, but you won't be replacing cartridges very often when the original is good for 10,000-plus gallons. At a gallon a day that's over 25 years of use.
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These water filters seem interesting...but borrow one from a buddy, and pump yourself 1 gallon of water. You'll see the amount of time/work involved.

I'd take a bottle of bleach...3oz..with a dropper. 2 drops per liter, shake, wait 15 minutes and then drink.

On my trip, bottled water was always available and when I found a local deep well source, I drank from there.
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Hi There,

We got very sick by drinking supposedly safe tap water in Bulgaria.. After that incident which took us several long weeks to recover from we pumped ALL water that we took using a katadyn pocket filter. The tool is brilliant however i would give you two pieces of advice..

1. bring some good quality fine cloth to filter the water going into a "dirty bottle".. take out as much fine dust as possible. Coffee filters are great but they are paper and hard to get new ones when they get totally clogged up in remote areas..
2. Once you have the dirty bottle you can pump the water from that into a clean bottle which you can then drink without any issues.

After 6 months on the road we didn't get sick again and the water was always good..

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back to iodine
Since this discussion started the EU have banned the sale of iodine for water disinfecting purposes.

More here, among other places.

An 'EU ban' can lead to a certain amount of scoffing of course, but if iodine gets hard to buy, that may explain it.

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for drinking water i go down the few drops of bleach per litre route, then wait a while and put an efervescent orange flavour vitC tab in it, drinking out of an old evian bottle cos i is posh dont ya know. i had one of those collapsible water bottles from aerostitch and it was great but when it wore out i kept the bottles from water i bought, they are surprisingly strong and last a long time, waisted ones can be tied onto luggage or handlebars easily.

bear in mind this does absolutely nothing to get rid of all the skanky bits of mud, faeces and larvae that might be clouding up the water!

about the food, and poor cooking/personal hygiene issues in eateries, was it sam manicom who wrote that fresh vegetables are nearly always safe to eat, and best to cook for yourself? that makes sense to me, although not being a vegetarian i do have to play salmonella roulette occasionally
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