You’re right, SafeWater Anywhere is no longer among us. Whatever the reasons for their demise, I thought their products (personal water bottles with a built-in filter) made sense. And they worked. At least, I never came down with giardia following trips where I used a SafeWater filter. Such a product still exists, though: the Katadyn Exstream bottle, which sells for $45 and kills viruses as well as removing little swimmers and floaters like giardia (www.katadyn.com).
Katadyn Exstream
But聴put an inline filter between a hydration bladder and yourself? I’m not convinced anything like that will work, even if you could put such a system together. The reason: You need to have some kind of pumping action to push the water through the filter. In the SafeWater system or Exstream bottle, that comes from a combination of sucking on the bottle and squeezing it. Trying to pull water through a hose AND a filter with suction alone isn’t going to be possible. You’ll be hiking or biking around with your cheeks caved in.
What to do? Pump filters are the obvious solution, but you must have your reasons for not wanting to go down that road (weight, perhaps). That leaves you with chemical purifiers, such as Potable Aqua ($8 for 50 tablets plus taste neutralizer; www.rei.com). That stuff kills just about anything.
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