Outdoor Health LifeStraw® Personal

LifeStraw® Personal Water Filter

LifeStraw® is an award-winning personal water filter backed by science, proven in the field, and its technology featured on CNN, Fast Company, BBC, Time, and the New York Times.

First designed for use in complex emergencies in the developing world, the LifeStraw® ensures that no matter where you go, you have instant access to safe and clean drinking water.

Perfect for the great outdoors, the LifeStraw® portable water filter can be used almost anywhere in the great outdoors including biking trips, hiking, camping, hunting, safari, road trips, emergency preparedness, or travel in the developing world.

LifeStraws are approximately 25cm long with a diameter of 3cm, very light and of solid construction. It has a cord to place around your neck.

The LifeStraw contains a number of filters and a pharmaceutical pouch that clean the water and treat it chemically. It kills disease-causing micro organisms which spread diarrhoea, dysentery, typhoid and cholera.  With the Lifestraw it is possible to drink water from almost any water source.

The Lifestraw is a must have device for all campers, back-packers, travellers, hikers, aid workers, volunteers, survival enthusiasts and for those planning for any eventuality.

The Lifestraw is a sealed unit with no moving parts therefore making it exceedingly durable. Like a normal drinking straw, Lifestraw is operated purely by the user sucking on the end of the straw.  There are no electrical or moving parts and no servicing or maintenance is required; simply blow back after use to remove the debris that has been filtered.  No electricity/ batteries are required which means your lifestraw is always operational.

As each lifestraw is only 25cm (10 inches) long and 29mm (just over 1 inch) in diameter, it is is the essential addition to any emergency survival kit be it for home, vehicle or back-pack.

• Offers easy access to safe drinking water away from home.

• Filters a minimum of 700 litres of water.
  
  
• Kills and removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria.
  
  
• Kills and removes 98.2% of waterborne viruses.
  
  
• Removes particles down to 15 microns.

• Requires no electrical power or spare parts for the life time of the straw.
  

• Easy to mass-distribute in areas where drinking water is contaminated.

• Winner of 2005 INDEX Award for International Design

• Winner of 2006 Well-Tech Award for Innovation Technology

• TIME Magazine's 'Best Invention of 2005'

• Popular Science's Invention of the Century'

• Reader's Digest's 'Europe's Best Invention'

• Saatchi and Saatchi Award for 'World Changing Ideas'

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