Sawyer Squeeze Water Filtration System
Sawyers hollow fiber membrane filters are certified for absolute microns making it impossible for bacteria like E. coli, Giardia, Vibrio Cholerae, Cholera and Salmonella typhi to pass through the filter. The filter comes with three collapsable water bottles or pouches. There’s a 16 oz., 32 oz., and a 64 oz. to be exact. The whole system is really light at only 3 oz. And you can roll up the pouches around the filter for packing, so it takes up very little space. We just keep ours in the side pocket of our backpacks. And of course you don’t have to take all three pouches with you. The system is so easy to use. You just screw a pouch onto the filter and turn it upside down. Gently squeeze the bag or slowly roll it up to force the water out. Never ever over squeeze or twist the filter. You could tear up your bag. You can squeeze it into a bottle or drink straight from the filter. Also, the filter will attach to most threaded water bottles including large 2 liter soft drink bottles. The pouches have these little pre-stamped holes at the bottom of each bag. So you can hang them up in a tree upside down to use as a gravity filter. This is nice to have in camp to wash your hands or dishes or stuff like that. And then there’s the syringe that attaches to the filter. You fill it with water and give it a forceful push to flush all the bad stuff out of the filter. That’ll help your filter last about one million gallons. The Sawyer won Backpacker Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award in 2012. This is definitely our favorite water filtration system. Sawyer also makes several other products that you can use with this filter so it’s really versatile. Also, Sawyer has helped provide clean drinking water to over 70 countries. That’s a company we don’t mind giving our money to.
