Portable Fast Water Purifier

[TheEvilDetector]

YouTube - Michael Pritchard makes filthy water drinkable

[ibaghdadi]

Up with libertarian entrepreneurship!

[torchbearer]

i want one!

[Bern]

Interesting. Amazon.com has them. The comments/reviews are interesting:

http://www.amazon.com/Lifesaver-Bott...2169005&sr=8-2

[BuddyRey]

I would love to get something like this, but it seems every water filtration system I see "expires" after a certain amount of uses, which seems like quite a significant strike against them to me. Is this figure just a sales trick, like with expiration dates on medications and vitamins, or is there a real reason why these have to be replaced after a while?

[torchbearer]

I would love to get something like this, but it seems every water filtration system I see "expires" after a certain amount of uses, which seems like quite a significant strike against them to me. Is this figure just a sales trick, like with expiration dates on medications and vitamins, or is there a real reason why these have to be replaced after a while?

first, filters get filled with contamination. cleaning the filters can often destroy the mesh that prevents smaller organism from passing through.
you may be able to clean the filter, but for liability purposes, a lifetime for safe use is given. same as medications.

[steve005]

waterwise 1600 is what everyone should have, its a water distiller that you can put on a campfire and make anything from mud and salt water to urine drinkable

[RideTheDirt]

I would love to get something like this, but it seems every water filtration system I see "expires" after a certain amount of uses, which seems like quite a significant strike against them to me. Is this figure just a sales trick, like with expiration dates on medications and vitamins, or is there a real reason why these have to be replaced after a while?

They are full off all the stuff that has been filtered.

[Elwar]

waterwise 1600 is what everyone should have, its a water distiller that you can put on a campfire and make anything from mud and salt water to urine drinkable

I love distilled water...there's such a huge difference

unfortunately my water distiller broke

[sevin]

Interesting, but I'll stick with my katadyn pocket filter. It'll be at least another 12,000 gallons before I even have to replace the filter.

[speciallyblend]

Interesting, but I'll stick with my katadyn pocket filter. It'll be at least another 12,000 gallons before I even have to replace the filter.

yeah i have the ceramic katadyn myself!!

[speciallyblend]

I love distilled water...there's such a huge difference

unfortunately my water distiller broke

any other water distiller you suggest?

[agitator]

Berkey Website for what it is worth:

With respect to the healthfulness of the water, most health experts that are up to date on current research are no longer recommending drinking RO or distilled water on a long-term basis because these methods remove all the beneficial minerals from the water making the water an acidic "hypotonic" solution. A chemist will tell you that any time a hypotonic (de-mineralized) solution comes into contact with a "hypertonic" (mineralized) solution, the minerals within the hypertonic solution will transfer out and into the hypotonic solution until equilibrium is achieved. What this means is simply that when one drinks hypotonic water, the minerals in the blood and lymphatic system, which are hypertonic, transfer into the hypotonic RO or distilled water that is consumed and the minerals are flushed out of the body upon urination.

In an effort to re-mineralize, the blood and lymphatic systems then begin to scavenge for minerals from other parts of the body, such as bones and other organs, and this process repeats itself every time de-mineralized hypotonic water is re-consumed. Several studies suggest that people who drink de-mineralized water (hypotonic) over a long period of time tend to be more prone to degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis.