Go Series Stainless Steel Water Filter Bottle 18oz / 500ml
Description
Description
The LifeStraw Go Series 500 ml stainless steel bottle has the filter built into the straw, so you fill from a tap, a bubbler or a stream and drink through it. The smaller size for travel and everyday carry.
Who it's for
The travel bottle. 500 ml of stainless steel, slim enough to drop into a car cupholder or a pack side sleeve - which is the practical difference between a filter bottle you use daily and one that lives in a drawer.
Airport taps, a tap in Mexico, a service station on a road trip. Fill up anywhere and stop buying bottled water.
What it removes, and what it does not
The membrane microfilter is the safety half: bacteria including E. coli and Salmonella, parasites including Giardia and Cryptosporidium, plus microplastics, sand, dirt and cloudiness. The carbon filter is the palatability half, cutting chlorine, odours and organic chemical matter - which is what turns technically-safe tap water into water you will actually drink.
Viruses are the one thing a membrane microfilter does not catch, at any brand. For Australian tap water and backcountry sources that is exactly the right risk profile, because what is actually in our water is bacteria and protozoa. Somewhere with sewage-contaminated supply, a purifier is the tool.
Flow rate and capacity
The membrane lasts up to 4,000 litres - about five years of daily use, and the equivalent of 8,000 single-use bottles kept out of the ocean. The carbon lasts up to 100 litres, roughly two months.
Maintenance
Change the carbon on schedule, not by taste. Stainless steel means the bottle itself never picks up flavours the way plastic does.
Freezing and storage
Never let a wet cartridge freeze. Ice splits the hollow fibres and the damage is invisible - the filter looks perfect and no longer filters. Camping below zero, keep it in your sleeping bag.
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