It’s now easier to filter water on ultralight adventures. LifeStraw makes it safe to drink straight from the stream or lake without pumping, squeezing, or filling up. Designed to provide you with safe, clean drinking water in any situation, LifeStraw is an award-winning personal water filter.
Made for hiking and camping, travel, emergency preparedness & survival, the LifeStraw ensures water is safe to drink even if it has been contaminated.
Unlike other water filters on the market, this Life Straw meets EPA standards for water filtering. And it’ll be useful for a long time as it’s capable of filtering up to 1056 gallons (4000 liters) of water!
Ultralight backpackers, campers, hikers, travelers, boy scouts, hunters, or those in emergency situations will love it
You can use this water filter on your next adventure to collect water from a puddle or other water source. These filters allow you to directly drink water from lakes, rivers, or from your bottle.
To drink from the straw, place part of it in the water and then take a sip. After drinking, blow back into it to clear the filter.
It’s lightweight, simple, and inexpensive. It removes particulates and pathogens such as bacteria and protozoa (Giardia and Cryptosporidium), but not viruses.
The Life Straw tube measures about 9.25 inches (23.5 centimeters) long, with a diameter of about 2 1/2 inches (6 cm). You can wear the unit around your neck thanks to the string attached to its outer shell made of durable plastic.
While the original version of LifeStraw contained iodine to kill bacteria, the 2012 version is free of chemicals. The new product uses mechanical filtration technology.
The hollow fibers of the Life Straw allow water to pass through pores measured to less than 0.2 microns in diameter, so it’s an advanced microfiltration device.
The filters trap dirt, bacteria, and parasites in the fibers, while clean water passes through. It takes just eight minutes for you to down a quart of water with the LifeStraw.
A simple, lightweight on-the-go filter at an affordable price, Lifestraw’s 1.75-ounce Lifestraw is hard to beat.
LifeStraw Water Filter Features + Benefits
- Filters up to 1056 gallons (4,000 liters) of water
- Removes 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria (>LOG 6 reduction), including E-Coli
- Removes 99.9% of waterborne protozoan parasites (>LOG 3 reduction), including Giardia & Cryptosporidium
- Removes Microplastics
- Reduces turbidity, filtering down to 0.2 microns
- Ultralight: weighs only 2oz
- Doesn’t use iodine or iodinated resin, and contains no chemicals
- No aftertaste (since there is no iodine or chlorine used)
- Made of durable, BPA-free materials
- Does not use batteries and has no moving parts
- Very high flow rate
- Easy to clean
- No shelf life and does not expire – LifeStraw can be stored and used when you need it, even after being used (just keep it uncapped so it can dry thoroughly)
- Used worldwide in harsh conditions since 2005
- Award-winning & internationally recognized filter technology
LifeStraw is used to help people all over the world
Since 2005, LifeStraw water filters have been distributed to almost every major international humanitarian disaster, as well as in public health campaigns.
The Life Straw helps people affected by war or disasters get access to clean water in some of the harshest conditions on earth. Governments and aid groups throughout the world use LifeStraws. The company uses sales to help support overseas donations.
The tech behind LifeStraw has been covered by CNN, Fast Company, BBC, and the New York Times. LifeStraw has also won a bunch of awards, including the INDEX Award, the Well-Tech Award for Innovative Technology, and TIME Magazine’s Best Invention Award.
It’s designed for one person on-the-go. It doesn’t have storage capabilities, but the water treatment is instantaneous. This is a great option for emergency situations, or for short trips into the backcountry where there will be plenty of water.
According to the company behind this revolutionary water filter, for every LifeStraw purchased, a child in Africa will receive a year’s worth of clean drinking water.
Water filtered by the LifeStraw Emergency Water Filter is free of bacteria and parasites. With 1,000 gallons (4,000 liters) of safe, clean drinking water, it lasts a long time. The microfiltration membrane removes 99.999999% of waterborne bacteria (including E. coli and salmonella), and 99.999% of waterborne parasites (including giardia and cryptosporidium). It also removes microplastics and other nasty stuff from your water. When it comes down to it, having access to clean drinking water can be the difference between life and death.
