Aquamira water bottle with filter
by: Angie Wiggins
Posted on: Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 1:30 pm by: Angie Wiggins
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As a cyclist, you know that wherever you go you’ve got to have clean, potable water. If you’re properly prepared, you’ll bring a water bottle with you on even the shortest trip; you’ll also bring a backup supply in case you run out. But what happens when your supply runs dry and you’re not sure if the water source you’ve got in front of you is drinkable?
That’s where the Aquamira water bottle with its changeable filter comes in. It’s not a purifier—just a filter—but it’s good enough for most water sources. A filter cleans all the unnecessary (and often unsafe) junk from water—even what you can’t see—but it doesn’t protect against waterborne viruses like Hepatitis A and rotavirus. Fortunately, waterborne viruses only account for 6% of the outbreaks in the United States, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Aquamira’s water bottle and filter make cleaning up your water easy. All you have to do is fill the water bottle with regular water (it holds 22 oz.), and it gets filtered when you squeeze it through the mouthpiece. It’s fairly easy to squeeze, although not as easy as an ordinary water bottle, and the filter stays inside—that’s one less step you have to take toward potable water and one less thing to carry separately.
The Aquamira water bottle and filter is a cut above the single-use bottles you buy in the store, too (aside from the handy built-in filter): it’ll fit in backpack pockets and most bottle cages, and it has a flip cap to keep the mouthpiece clean and uncontaminated.
Buying directly from Aquamira, the bottle and filter together will cost you $24.95; replacement filters are $12.95 and last up to 230 refills. Since purchasing this water bottle one time will save you tons of cash in the long run (think about how much an individual 22 oz. bottle of purified water costs at the convenience store), and it’s reusable and sturdy, it’s well worth the price.
Aquamira Technologies has been treating water successfully for nearly a decade, and they provide all kinds of emergency gear to everyone from avid cyclists to the military. They definitely know what they’re doing, and most of their prices are reasonable when compared to similar products on the market.
You’re going to carry a water bottle anyway, so choose responsibly—the Aquamira water bottle and filter can be used over and over, saving you money and time that could be better spent cycling!
For more information, visit Aquamira.com ,
