I don't like the taste that Iodine tablets leave in the water and I don't like the residue that the neutralizer leaves in water. So no pills for me.

I use a Katadyn Hiker Pro water filter when filtering drinking water for just myself or for two people. That's a pump type filter and it has been the standard by which all other filters are measured for over twenty years.

I use a Platapus Waterworks gravity filter when filtering drinking water for a larger group.

Whenever I am going to boil water, say for freeze-dried or coffee, I gather water right out of a clear fast-moving stream into my pot or metal cup and put it onto the stove. Since I'm going to boil it any way, there's no reason to filter it first.

I've also turned a Sawyer Squeeze Filter into a gravity filter by adding some cheap after-market parts. But I don't use it much since the other two filters seem to fit the respective niches better.


Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.