Super Delios Portable Water Filter - Drinking water purifier for travel
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Super Delios Portable Water Filter - Drinking water purifier for travel
UK price: £29.99
Pros: light, cheap, squeezable
Cons: makes me think of all the poor folk around the world having to drink dirty water
Verdict: good travel tool for extreme adventures
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Available from: www.delios.co.uk
Product Review
The "Super Delios Portable Water Filter" is a cheap plastic bottle with a water filter that you can screw in the top. The filter is the fancy bit - a replacement costs £26. The set with the filter, bottle, carrying pouch and instructions costs only £4 more.
So the first question: does it work? Yes. I filled the bottle with brown nasty water from my water but with wiggly things swimming around in it. Squeezed the water through the fibrous filter and it came out as clean as tap water and just as tasty. I waited, rather conscientiously I thought, a week. That was to see if I died or not. And I survived.
So this unit would make light work of jungle streams or mountain ponds. If you travel to places with running drinking water the Super Delios will save you carrying a lot of water.
They claim to have tested it hundreds of times on one filter. The filter top will screw into other bottles, containers and those Platypus water containers. The filter weighs next to nothing and is the size of an egg cup.
The squeezy bottle is good though - it speed the process so the clean water comes out almost as fast as a tap.
The Super Delios could range in application from a simple way for nervous travellers to ensure the cleanliness of tap water or even dodgy bottled water to being a life-saver in an emergency like a natural disaster.
You can't use it if the water is chemically polluted. In fact, if there's no fish in the water that's a bad sign. And don't even think about using this to make seawater drinkable. But snowmelt, underground rivers, swimming pool water or ponds can be made drinkable with this nifty device.
There are other portable water filters out there for travellers but the ones I've seen and tried and more expensive and don't last as long. The Super Delios has a claimed filter capacity of 53 gallons - that's almost 300 litres.
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