Water Purifiers
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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.
TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.
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Water Purifiers
by mardy grace » Thu 24 Dec, 2009 2:39 pm
Any suggestions for a good quality, reasonably priced, lightweight water purifier that gets rid of all the little nasties (particularly giardia, etc)?
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Re: Water Purifiers
by ILUVSWTAS » Thu 24 Dec, 2009 8:38 pm
I got some tablets from MD that kills most germies
Nothing to see here.
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Re: Water Purifiers
by photohiker » Thu 24 Dec, 2009 9:29 pm
I've got one of these on the way:
Drinksafe Travel Tap
Supposed to be the ants pants. Filters just about anything, and when the filter reaches end of life it stops all flow - this is apparently a failing with some filter systems.
Primarily, it's for Scotland. The water there is generally pretty good except for popular areas or if a river is 'in spate' where a lot of organic matter is carried in the water.
Drinksafe Travel Tap
Supposed to be the ants pants. Filters just about anything, and when the filter reaches end of life it stops all flow - this is apparently a failing with some filter systems.
Primarily, it's for Scotland. The water there is generally pretty good except for popular areas or if a river is 'in spate' where a lot of organic matter is carried in the water.
Michael
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Re: Water Purifiers
by jcr_au » Fri 25 Dec, 2009 10:33 am
I bought the light weight steripen a couple of years ago & it does me unless the water needs filtering. They're not cheap but if you can get it from the US it will be significantly cheaper.
When I bought mine the same model was $260 in Aus and $85 in US and at the time our dollar was 96c anyway.
john r
When I bought mine the same model was $260 in Aus and $85 in US and at the time our dollar was 96c anyway.
john r
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Re: Water Purifiers
by ninjapuppet » Sat 26 Dec, 2009 12:14 am
i Second the steripen.
I used an MSR filter and a katadyn pur hiker with no dramas for 5 years, but then got the adventurer steripen when it came out, and cant be happier due to its light weight. never gotten sick from SE asia to all over australia.
When it needs filtering, just use a piece of cloth over a nalgene bottle to collect your water.
I used an MSR filter and a katadyn pur hiker with no dramas for 5 years, but then got the adventurer steripen when it came out, and cant be happier due to its light weight. never gotten sick from SE asia to all over australia.
When it needs filtering, just use a piece of cloth over a nalgene bottle to collect your water.
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