Water filter a crucial aid for hikers

Water filter a crucial aid for hikers

To be safe and to avoid stomach pain, diarrhea and fever smart backpackers always treat their water sources with either purifiers, microfilters, gravity-fed filters or pump filters.

Purifiers eliminate viruses, bacteria and giardia, a single-cell parasitic protozoa also called "beaver fever." Microfilters eliminate giardia and most bacteria. Filters eliminate giardia. When choosing a good water filter, check the size of filter pores the openings ...