Water filters any experience ?

[b0ogaloo]

Hi

Has anyone any experience or recommendations for portable water filters ?

I've been looking at the, Katadyn Vario online . Seems a good  piece of kit

Cotswold have them for £85 .. although I don't see any mention of replacement filters

Anywhere that I go , I'd be more worried about farm chemicals getting into the water supply than bacteria
You can kill bacteria by boiling but not chemicals


Andy

[pablo]

i thought you just sucked it through one of your old socks mate.


or is that just meths? 

[666_pack]

these seem the be a great bit if kit

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product353.asp




Instantly removes:
Taste and taint
Chemicals
Herbicides
Pesticides
Purification chemicals
Sediments and heavy metals
Proven to remove waterborne disease causatives, Bacteria , Protozoa  including Cryptosporidium , Giardia , E-coli , viral disease causatives and Anthrax immediately

[RedLeader]

I have a Travel Tap from BackPackingLight. It's a great bit of kit and says it filters just about everything out. Can be hard to force water through the filter but that's only to be expected.

[pablo]

can you buy replacement filters for that?

[Celt_Ginger]

Premac MWP is what I have. I don't know of any filter though that removes chemicals though, which can be a problem especially in lowland areas where agriculture is the main industry.

[RedLeader]

The Travel Tap filters are replaceable. One does 1600 litres.

[pablo]

hmmm sounds good,wonder what price they are.

its a drag having to carry so much water on the kayak when touring so one of those would be ideal.

[billy backpack]

I also have the Travel Tap and must say I'm well chuffed, after it arrived and I flushed it I done a simple test with ordinary tap water to see if there was any differance in taste and I must say....there was....the water from the Travel Tap had less of an after taste.

It eleminates having to carry loads of water and the risk of taking from what you hope to be a clean source.

The one I would probably consider if I had to buy another is the canteen version as it holds a full litre.

I think mine cost around £33.00 delivered.

[pablo]

theres a simple but very effective test everyone who drinks tap water should do.

boil a glass of tap water then pour into a glass with a tea-bag. do the same with a glass of filtered water then place the two of them on a well lit window sill.

the difference is clear! literally.

i did it after we,d bought one of the brittas water filter jugs. be interesting to do it with one of these travel taps.