Bushwalk Australia

Any suggestions for a good quality, reasonably priced, lightweight water purifier that gets rid of all the little nasties (particularly giardia, etc)?

I got some tablets from MD that kills most germies

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.

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

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.