I bought a Katadyn for a trip to Mali in the mid 90's and used it a lot - not so much bottled water around then, but although it did work I found it slow and prone to clogging if your water source wasn't clean. Eventually I gave up on it and just used iodine tablets.
On my last trip down there five years ago I took it again, as well as a supply of tablets but there was so much bottled water available I didn't use either method much - just the odd occasion when I got water from a tap.
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