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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #801008 11/24/13 04:50 PM
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The lifestraw 1.0 is billed as a "Family" filtration device. It has a 2lit "bucket" with a prefilter you pour water into and it is gravity fed down to the actual filter by a long tube.

Here is the site where you can read about the lifestraw and lifestraw family 1.0.

http://eartheasy.com/lifestraw-family-1-0

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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #801017 11/24/13 08:52 PM
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I knew the difference Randy that is why I pointed out that what I may be reviewing is a different model


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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #801018 11/24/13 09:01 PM
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Yeah I knew you knew there was a difference. I am actually thinking about both.

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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #1002962 05/28/14 03:57 PM
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I wound up getting a Sawyer mini filter. Supposed to be good for 100K GALLONS!

I am also thinking about getting a Berky sport bottle filter and rigging it up to remove heavy metals and offensive tastes from the water if need be. The bag I found to hold my filter, the bag and back flushing device and rubber straw still has room for the Berky filter as well!


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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #1002964 05/28/14 04:15 PM
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I have a Berkey Sports Bottle. Its a nice way to carry extra (unfiltered) water that can be used later.


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Re: Water purification/filtration [Re: imaginefj] #1002996 05/28/14 09:43 PM
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Sat next to one of the owners of Sawyer on my way down to Colombia a couple weeks ago. Seems like a good product. I want to get one.


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All four humanitarian/disaster relief missions I have been a part of we flew/shipped in tons of bleach. We handed it out in places like Indonesia, Cambodia, Philippines etc .. you get the picture, 3rd world places. We gave them a 5 gallon bucket and told them to fill it with water and add a cap of bleach and let it sit for a few hours. It seemed to work well as none of the locals we gave it to were coming down with the parasites and other ickys as other villages farther away. We also advised them to boil the water when they could instead of the bleach, but fuel was scarce, so I don't many did.

In other places, missions my friends were on like the tsunami in Japan where the water was contaminated not infected, they gave them buckets with holes in the bottom and showed them how to make filters by filling it with layers of different size rocks, pebbles and sand.

We are regularly issued Aquamira Frontier Pro straw like filters, but I have never had to use them. I just grab a fresh bottle of water for the pallet. wink


We all had Aquamira Frontier Pro straw like filters issued.


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Yeah I want to get a couple of those Aquamira filters too.


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Originally Posted by Ishikawa
Sat next to one of the owners of Sawyer on my way down to Colombia a couple weeks ago. Seems like a good product. I want to get one.


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