Water Filter Project

[Mortblanc]

If I were going for a small and compact system and ordering the parts on line I would opt for the big Sawyer system.

You can use it out of the box for most requirements, especially in a vehicle application. Uses a big bladder and you squeeze it through the filter.

Also will attach to 2L or small soft drink bottles and filter from those. Fill the bottle with water and drink through the attached filter. That is the way it is used by long distance hikers over here. Most of them no longer carry the old nagline or metal water bottles so prized by most of the British buchcrafters.

Or if at home epoxy a 2L bottle mouth on the bottom of a 1 gallon bucket and screw on the Sawyer, let it drip into a container.

That unit is only $40 US. Good for 500 gallons a day or 100,000gallons total life. They also make an adapter that fits a regular faucet tap so it can be used for contaminated utility water.