💦 Best Personal WATER FILTERS 💦

Hey there! I've never been pummeled with so many questions about one thing and that's been water filtration. I've really kind of been pounding home the fact that well it's good to you know have some water stored away. Water filtration is everything because water is everywhere yeah unless it's contaminated with like fallout then you can take care of it. Now these are personal water filtration units. These are not for like feeding you and the Brady Bunch. The one filter that I actually didn't bring out here because I have them at the cabin several of them at the cabin I didn't think that I did it's a Sawyer it's called a micro squeeze it's $28. You can actually fill the bag with the brown water no not like toilet water I mean like from the creek you know rainwater stuff like that and you actually can squeeze it directly in your mouth or you can squeeze it through it actually has a capacity of I think like a hundred thousand gallons. Now if you do really dirty stuff through it the actual microtubules that run through those Sawyers will clog. It's like yes you can backwash it but if you run some really nasty stuff through it yeah it's going to clog and you ain't going to be able to fix it you're not going to be able to backwash it either. So next we actually flush it the other way to try to get contamination out of it. This is why pre-filtration is important. I mean if that involves you using a couple dirty socks you know pre-filtration is not that hard. I mean anything can serve as pre-filtration. This isn't the best idea but you get my point pre-filtration makes your filters last a lot longer because filters cost money. So that would be the Sawyer micro squeeze. Like what about the other Sawyers? Not as good. There's only really three good Sawyers. One of them is the micro squeeze the other one's a larger blue one. I got all those in the cabin for some reason. I thought I actually had a couple here. I've owned like a half a dozen of these. I got three of these suckers and I'll go over the difference between the Katedin Hiker and the Katedin Pocket which I have right over here. Now this is a carbon filtration unit. Now there's a glass fiber element that has a filter protector that actually extends the cartridge life. They started doing that like a year and a half ago. This used to be a pure filter this exact same thing a pure Hiker. Katedin bought it and now it is a Katedin Hiker. It's the exact same damn filter. Now the Katedin Pro actually comes with a little a little pre-filter unit and I actually don't have it in here. I have it my other one and but it's clear. Don't get this one. Get the non-transparent Katedin Hiker. The regular Katedin Hiker is 65 bucks. This one which is the translucent case which doesn't have anything to do with water filtration. People like to see the water. It's 89 bucks so for basically 30 dollars more you're getting nothing and a clear housing. But anyway the replacement filter for it is a 44 bucks and it's good for 300 plus gallons. You can actually make it last longer. There's actually a pre-filter right here but if you cover this with a sock or a pantyhose. Actually double layer of pantyhose. It's actually going to take more to suck the water through but the more you pre-filter it with simple stuff like that the longer it's going to last. It comes apart really easy. The design is really simple. People say what about this filter, that filter, the MSR filter. The problem is with those is they're not that reliable. They have too many darn parts. Simplicity is divinity. Anything can break and this of course is mostly plastic and it certainly can break but the number of parts on it is next to nil. I mean there's nothing here other than a frigging filter, two clips, and a plunger, and three o-rings, and a screw cap with another set of o-rings. I mean it is really that freaking simple. You don't even need this stuff on the end. This is the pre-filtration unit and you know you can't see it here but there's actually a mesh basket that acts as a pre-filter. You can actually set this and causes it to float in the water like if you throw it in the creek. Anyway this is the best single personal water filtration unit you can get. Like I say each filter is 44 buck replacement. It comes with one obviously so good for 300 plus gallons of water. It'll filter microorganisms larger than 0.2 microns. Same as the Kated Impoculate which I'm about to show you here. It's activated carbon in the core and the water comes out tasting better nine times out of ten. So you know you got some briny creek water right. Both of these are going to filter the same but this one's going to taste a lot better because it's carbon-based. Also too the fact that this one's carbon if there's any sort of mild not like toxic stuff any sort of mild chemicals in the water which you should try to find the cleanest water source possible. Because usually unless you're in the middle of the desert if you're standing somewhere in most of America or even Europe you know you have a choice of water sources to filter from. So if there's any mild chemicals carbon will filter it out better. Then it won't filter it out at all really the chemical stuff out of ceramic filter in the Kated Impoculate. Kated Impoculate pocket filter over here. Now this like I said it's $69 for the non-translucent one. This is the Kated Impoculate pocket. Got a couple of these. This is used by Navy SEALs and also used too by Delta Force Special Forces. It's Swiss. The new the new hiker which looks exactly the same as the old hiker owned by Pierre is also too made in De Schweitz, made in Switzerland. So you actually get the same pre-filtration hoses and all that other peripheral garbage like this. It comes with a little scotch brite pad for scrubbing a very very thin layer of a ceramic off of the ceramic filter. Now this unit is $360 bucks new. It's all CNC machined. It's except for the the central portion which is never going to break. I've never heard anybody break in one. Well you certainly could if you threw it off a cliff. Pocket here is Swiss made. The filter inside is $200 bucks and it is good for cartridge capacity of 13,000 gallons. So on this $50 filter you get 300 plus gallons depending on how nasty the water is and how much pre- filtration you do. And you got a hundred and excuse me 13,000 gallons or 50,000 liters on the this almost qualifies as a family filter for an emergency because you could filter so much water through it. It's I don't know if I want to take it apart. I can. It's just a ceramic cartridge right inside. It actually breaks apart really easy and there's almost nothing on this to break. I mean that literally the only thing that's breakable and you have to take it apart to do it is a ceramic filter that's inside of it. This is the base unit has a ball bearing and a spring in there with some silicone grease and we actually have here a plunger unit which actually unscrews off of the top section. This is the only fragile part. This is ceramic. This is the $200 replacement. So for $200 replacement you get 13,000 gallons. It is very freaking fragile but when it's inside its filtration system you can sit there and scratch it like you're scratching a graham cracker. Not so much that super fragile but you can and when it actually gets dirty what you do is you take a there's even one that's more sensitive than this not so abrasive. What you do is you take it very very very very lightly you scrape off you know the the crud that's accumulated on the outside of the ceramic filter. One thing that people really screw up on on these is that they'll use it or test it and then they'll leave the filter in there. I don't know if you know this but if you leave water inside of a you know a vessel you know heat you know you got a mold and fungus is growing on and that's not an attack on the filter. The point is is that when you use it and you're done using it and if you test it you need to take it out and let it air dry for essentially five six seven days. You need to do that because standing water mold and you know stuff likes to grow right. It is silver impregnated the ceramic filter. Like I said the filter this plunger actually unscrews right here and the filter is from here on up. Also 2.2 micron of filtration. The upsides of this is so durable and there's not a chance in hell you're going to screw this up. Not really anyway. The water out of it if it has any chemicals or any sort of like mucky creek taste it's not carbon-based. You're going to taste it so that's that's an issue but you get 13,000 gallons versus for 50 bucks. So this one is four times as much but you got 13,000 gallons versus 300 gallons roughly depending on how nasty the water is that you filter through. This Katedon Hiker. This is all plastic but it is very simple and there's extremely few parts on this sucker. You really got to be a fool and a goofball to screw it up. You know some people don't read the instructions. You know it's an important note is everybody should read instructions on stuff. So yeah if you use it at all or if you test it you need to take it out and let it air dry for a week essentially. It literally takes that long. That's it. These are the two personal water filtration units that I recommend. You gotta be careful putting this back on there. You don't want to scrape scrape that. And you see how simple it is to assemble and disassemble. And it's got some silicone grease on those rings. I got two of these. I got another one up in my cabin. So it is made in the De Schweitz, made in Switzerland. And you tighten it about roughly thusly and here you can see the plunger. Your intake and your outlet port down here. And not use this one. This is my new one. The other one I've used a few times. Camping and I haven't backpacked in quite a long time. But yeah this is that's good enough for a Delta Force and Navy Seals is sure as hell is good enough for you. Yeah but it is $369. There is a much older version of this. It's essentially the same thing. You could find it on eBay and it might look beautiful on the outside. But if the filter inside is crudded and puke and mold and stuff. Like the mold's been crusted on there for a decade. Don't buy a used one. I'm all about buying used. Except for except for one of these. So there you go. There's a recommendation for top best personal water filtration units. Like one of her family. Like a Berkey water filter. There are other options obviously. So people's like well I could use charcoal and a couple Ziploc. Yeah but it's not the best thing you know for portability. You know there's a lot of neat little tricks you could do to filter water. Boil it. You know you could dig a hole in the side of a creek and put coffee filters and let the water seep through the edge of the hole from the creek. Yeah that's wonderful. You know that's great. You know why don't you just keep it simple and get one of these suckers. Especially the hiker. There is nothing better than a hiker. And there are other little weirdo filters. They have too many damn parts on them. Don't recommend them. Like the MSR water filter. There's more than a few of them. I've seen and messed with almost all of the the top 10 of them. Actually I have messed with all top 10. They're too complicated. Simplicity is divinity. You know if it's something a failure point you know then you have a higher chance of it breaking down. And once it fails what it what good is it then it's a doorstop. So yes this is plastic but it's very simple. There's nothing I could recommend higher than the Kated End Hiker. Thanks so much for watching. Goodbye.