Stop Buying Bottled Water With a Water Bottle Purifier
The new Katadyn Exstream Personal Water Bottle Purifier is a self-contained filtration system in a handy bottle. Drinking plenty of water is important, but to buy bottled water every day is to throw your money and harmful plastic into a landfill. We reported recently on paper water bottles as a way to cut down on the dangerous level of plastic being tossed into seas and landfills, but remember that reusing is always better than replacing. Paper bottles are reusable to a point, but the whole biodegradable design is based on the assumption that you are going to throw it away, right?
Having a filtration system at home is great. You can get clean, crisp drinking water any time you want for minimal cost. The average cost of a bottle of water when using an at-home purifier is about five cents (USD). However, if you like to have clean, filtered water at work or on the road and don’t have access to your home filter for refills, what are you to do? In the past you could either suck it up and force down tap water, which isn’t so bad if you live near a Rocky Mountain stream but can be utterly foul if you live in a large city. Or you could buy bottled water. At least you don’t have to carry around all that heavy money, right? Fret no more, for the dilemma has been solved by the Katadyn water bottle purifier.
The Katadyn Exstream Personal Water Bottle Purifier website boasts that it is the only EPA registered purification bottle that is able to remove all organisms from your drinking water, including viruses. Keep in mind that being registered by the Environmental Protection Agency does not automatically guarantee that a product’s claims are true, but does give us very strong reason to believe so.
Water BottlesThe Exstream has a capacity of 26 oz, which is about 40 percent of the water you need per day according to the Mayo Clinic, depending on size and lifestyle of course. So, it should be fully capable of supplying your water needs until you can find a tap to fill it up again. For longer excursions, Katadyn offers a variety of camping and survival oriented filtration systems.
The Exstream’s filter can process about 26 gallons before needing to be replaced, which corresponds to 128 full refills. The filter utilizes the pressure created by gravity to push water through and requires no pumping or special effort. Unfortunately, there is no indication as to whether the bottle comes with a gauge to let you know when it is time for replacement.
The bottle itself is listed for 40 Euro on the Katadyn website, but can be easily found elsewhere for $40 USD. Replacement filters run $17 for a pack of two. That means the cost of your first 128 bottles of water will be about 32 cents (USD) per bottle and 11 cents for every bottle after that. Compared to buying a bottled water every day, this product would pay for itself after two months. It would then save you about $25 per month thereafter. This is all not to mention the mountain of plastic.
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