Do these type of filters actually work?

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Yes.

But you'll suck a golf ball through a garden hose before you get a full 'drink' out of a fucking life straw.

>>1064961
Yes, just follow the directions

>>1064961
Fuck putting your face in the water to get a drink.
>>1064962
I have this exact filter and it's great.

>>1064961
>>>/out/

>>1064962
You just gotta suck hard bb

>>1064961
I've drink out of ditchwater and Creek water in the Rockies with mine

>>1064961
Bear in mind, while they're like 99.9% effective, that other 0.1% may still fuck your shit up. You're still relying on your immune system to deal with whatever's in the water, you're just giving it a much better chance of winning.

That being said, best damn water I ever drank was filtered from a mountain stream halfway up a Presidential in NH. Bad drinking water will seriously mess you up, but we're not made of glass.

>>1064961
Not /k/ related asshole.

>>1064965
This.

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get a sawyer gravity operated one, no need to suck or pump like a fool, and they are easily back flushed by lifting the clean side higher than dirty.

>>1064969
Sawyer does make good products. I have 2 of their mini filters - they don't require you to suck like crazy to get a drink, they can screw onto any standard threaded plastic bottle/canteen, and are also easily cleaned. Terrific for backpacking.

Is it so hard to pack some water purification tablets or chlorine drops? They don't take up any space at all

>>1064971
Some water purification tablets require you to wait a period of time (maybe 30 minutes) until the water is safe to drink. I also don't enjoy water that tastes like it came from a chlorinated swimming pool.

>>1064971
A sawyer minifilter can purify 100,000 gallons and is pretty small and cheap. How much does it take and cost per gallon for chlorine?

Also Chlorine doesn't kill all protozoa.

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>>1064961
Yes. Not the most efficient, but they'll do for drinking water.

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>>1064971
>>1064972
>>1064973
There's no reason to not have both considering how inexpensive they both are.

Better safe than sorry, unless you want to die ass first.

>mfw use pump filter to pump water into gravirty filter bag
>insert chlorine tablet into filter bag
>filter into canteen
i da cleanest. Also aluminum processing plant wants to kill me.

>>1064974
jazzhands.jpg

>>1064965
Nigga wut are buggout bags

>>1064967
You're pretty damned good at saying a lot and not a lot all at once if ya know what I mean

I just bought two Sawyer Minis for my bugout bags. I had lifestraws, but I figured the mini would fit better for the bugout scenario. Smaller and apparently a bit better.

I have a Lifestraw. It's ok, but they're designed to be cheaply made and distributed in the worst off parts of the world. /out/ recommended a Sawyer mini and it's much higher quality for the same price (~$20). You can get the more expensive brands like Katadyn, but at that point you may as well go an even safer route and get a UV purifier for your water bottle.

Sage for not /k/ related

>>1064975
True. Both is the most reasonable option.

>>1064967
Let me say what you were trying to say.

>This device is not 100% effective. However it is a better option for drinking dirty water. The best water I drank was from a stream.

>>1064971
Lifestraw is designed for people who don't have the IQ to operate a simple hand pump.

>>1064978
this isn't a thread about bugout bags. if you're going to ask off topic, may as well use the qtddtot

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Lifestraws are a meme.

Get a Sawyer system instead.

why not just boil water?

>>1065008
It takes half an hour, costs fuel, and doesn't get all of the muck out of the water

>>1065014
You pre-filter through a bandana or something. Boiling is the only way which kills basically everything you encounter.


Boiling is some minutes with gas. Cooling takes some time.
I don't trust any of the meme UV pens, hand filters and whatnot.

>>1064968
You're the asshole

>>1064961
Mine works fine that I keep in a "get home / bail out" bag in my jeep.
But for hiking I use a sawyer if I'm not boiling water.
As a back up or a sere situation, I have 3 individually wrapped iodine tabs hidden in my us palm concealment belt.
I also keep a seachell filter bottle and a stainless pot in my two atvs.

>>1065021
Boiling doesn't kill tardigrades, but they're harmless. UV pens should work great at least in theory.

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>>1064986
sawyer can go fuck themselves, I have been waiting for their new squeeze pouches with heavy metals and pesticides filtration and they haven't delivered yet. It was supposed to be released in last spring...

>>1065225
> UV pens
Yes.

Remember to pre filter and to keep UV processed water out of daylight to avoid reactivating the germs

>>1065238
UV radiation should kill pretty much all waterborne pathogens.

>>1065238
>keep UV processed water out of daylight to avoid reactivating the germs
You're on crack. Where did you hear this?

>>1065229
This

>>1064962
>hard like sucking balls
speaking from experience?

>>1065238
sunlight kills any germs for about 10cm depth.
if you put water into a pet bottle out the sun it will be free of live germs in a few hours.

>>1064969
I use the mini in the exact same way, just take off the bitvalve on my camelbak, hook up the dirtybag/filter, two minutes later I've got another 2 liters of clean water. It couldn't be easier.

>>1065635
>suck a golf ball through a garden hose
Have you never seen Full Metal Jacket?

Hello /k/

>>1065868
i think he was making a gay joke.