One thing we’ve found is that the bottom “dirty water” container can leak when the bottle is pressurized. If there’s a fridge at our accommodation we’ll filter a few litres the night before and pop it in the fridge so it’s nice and cold to go into the insulated bottles the following morning. This means we aren’t dependent on a water source when we’re hiking in the Himalayas or Temple hopping in Myanmar. The Grayl is relatively easy to use, does a great job of purifying water, and gives us the flexibility to filter a large quantity at a time and transfer it to our insulated water bottles.
(It’s also difficult to press water through if the cap is screwed on tight, so make sure you unscrew it a bit before pressing the water!!) It’s also easy to know when the filter is finished because it becomes really difficult to press water through it. You simply fill the outer container to the line, and then press down on the inner container for 15sec and voila, safe water! This results in a lot more flexibility and is significantly easier to manage, especially when traveling with kids or multiple people. This is the filter bottle we’ve chosen, and we love it! It’s unique in that it doesn’t require the action of drinking to filter water. My Favourite Filter Water Bottle for Travel: Grayl Water Bottle The Best Insulated Water Bottles for Travel: Klean Kanteen & S’well Stand Alone Water Bottle Filters for Travel: The Lifestraw An Alternative Filtered Water Bottle for Travel: Water-To-Goģ. My Favourite Filter Water Bottle for Travel: The GraylĢ.
#Platypus water filter problems free#
All water bottles are BPA free (an absolute MUST for me)!ġ. This year alone we’ve used a lifestraw, encountered Water-To-Go bottles, bought 25L jugs of water with a funnel for pouring, boiled water in hotel kettles and let it cool, chosen filtered water at restaurants when available, and finally settled on our “perfect” system. I’ve searched to find the best water system for traveling. After cleaning up hundreds of bottles from beaches and the ocean, I’m not okay with that. A majority of these bottles would eventually end up in the ocean. In many non-Western countries, recycling is too expensive or simply not available. That’s a LOT of plastic bottles! At home, we’re admittedly better at recycling, although I’ve read that only 20% of plastic bottles are recycled in North America. Over the year that would be 5840 small bottles, or 2190 big bottles. For our family of four, drinking 2L each would be sixteen 500mL bottles, or six 1.5L bottles a day. Using the odd water bottle here and there isn’t necessarily a big deal, but when we look at the numbers for a year of travel the amount is staggering. There are many different ways to reduce plastic waste, but eliminating plastic water bottles from our lives seemed like the most impactful way to start.
All this plastic has washed up from the ocean 🙁 Rather than digging through the sand to find stone carvings and temples, they’ll find plastic straws and water bottles.ģ+ massive bags of garbage picked up from a small atoll in Indonesia. Exploring the ancient temples in Egypt got me wondering what archaeologist will find of our society 2000+ years from now.
We’re using up resources and discarding them as if it’s nothing. I’ve also come to realize that just because we don’t see it as much at home, it’s still a problem. It doesn’t matter whether we’re swimming on a deserted beach in Indonesia, wandering the Pyramids in Egypt, or looking out the window of a train in India, trash is everywhere. One of the things that’s had the biggest impact on me during our year of travel is the amount of waste we produce. I went on a hunt for the best travel water bottle with a filter. We needed a travel water bottle with filter to turn unsafe water into drinking water as much as possible. Randy doesn’t like luke-warm water, and this helped minimize the amount of luke-warm water he’d have to drink! Throughout the year however, our needs changed and we found ourselves wanting a companion for this insulated bottle. When we left for our year of travel we brought along an insulated travel water bottle. We’ve always carried around a reusable water bottle, especially when traveling.
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