hartcreek wrote:
I have a sawyer type that uses a small hand pump. Used to use it when backpacking to make Coolaid in camp. Had a lifestraw the original blue ones.....forget it. Much easier to just use iodine tabs.
The iodine tabs will kill the germs, but they won't remove the dirt/floaties. I've used a pump style filter to literally get clean drinkable water out of a mud puddle. (killed the life of the filter by a few hundred gallons)