Hello. Well I'm newbie at survival and I am making basic survival kit. I want to ask you where can I get cheapest life straw and with cheapest shipping to Latvia,Europe
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Hello. Well I'm newbie at survival and I am making basic survival kit. I want to ask you where can I get cheapest life straw and with cheapest shipping to Latvia,Europe
Hunter63 saying Hey and Welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by celsavs_lv
I gonna guess that Google is going to be your friend......?
Can't help you with that since I've never shipped anything to Latvia.
Lifestraw is manufactured by Vestergaard headquartered in Switzerland. You might contact them and ask them where the closest supplier is.
http://www.vestergaard.com/contact-us
A Sawyer filter is a much better choice than a Lifestraw. Lifestraws have a habit of not working for some reason. 3 of our Demo ones have failed to function so far, and thats only after a few courses use. The Sawyer filters twice as fine too. A lifestraw is for use at the water source, where-as a Sawyer can use stored water from a P.E.T water bottle, and also the bag that comes with it. A Sawyer is also guaranteed for much longer use.
Lifestraw now makes a gravity flow filter for family use or group applications.
and it would probably be easier for this person to order the Lifestraw from the supplier since he lives one country away from the manufacturer. No need for them to be shipped from Switzerland to the US and back to Latvia.
And Sawyer makes a wide array of options.
Sawyer has European distributers too.
https://sawyer.com/international/dis...sawyer-europe/
All this confusion makes me appreciate the internet and American suppliers.
Ain't science sumpthin'? Next thing you know smooth bore will be obsolete.
....and they will sell bottled water....
Just a question.....Is there Walmart stores in Latvia, Europe?....or other big box stores....sporting goods stores?
Have you looked locally?
Lifestraws are in every single outdoor or camping store I've ever been in. I'd find it strange to not be able to get it somewhere in Riga?
That may be true in Australia but they have only been a available in retail outlets here in the US for a couple of years. You still have to look for them and they are not on every shelf in every outlet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enigma
I had to have my first one smuggled in from Canada several years ago.
Thanks kyrat, that's really interesting info. I'd figured they'd have sorted distribution by now, seeing as it's been around since 2005. They're not designed to actually filter very much though, I've read 700 litres to 1000 litres. They were developed for third world countries, so personally I still maintain a Sawyer filter is the way to go, for outdoor enthusiasts in developed countries. :-)
The information that was once on the company website was that the organization developed the lifestraw with the specific purpose of providing one year of drinking water from each straw for residents of 3rd world nations and they were not interested in diverting their production to developed nations.
Developed nations have plenty of clean water.
I think the US was the last country where they established a distribution network.
Even now they claim the profit from the sales in developed nations is funneled back into purification devices for 3rd world distribution. Their mark up is tremendous and each filter sold in Europe or North America probably provides a dozen filters for remote areas.
mine have the sole purpose of being emergency use items in my vehicles just in case I have to walk home from the big city and my water bottle goes empty and I am forced to filter Kentucky creek water to stay hydrated.
I think 700 to 1000 liters will do me just fine for that purpose.
you get what you pay for any filter you buy should be able to filter out farm chemicals pesticides, guardia,cyrptospirilla and heavy
metals. i have a sawyer mini but the filter is no good for any real survival use cause the water still has to be boiled and you still
need a charcol filter to boot. so now i carry a berky sport bottle. but one should always have the knowledge to improvise
a charcol water bottle filter as a matter of course. our water in this country is POLUTTED that said never drink any water
that is not filtered first.
It's a matter of semantics, but no filter will do the above. That would be a purifier. Purifier is a legal definition with strict requirements. If it says it is a water purifier in the US it will do all of the above.
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Your demands from a portable water cleansing device have now gone past those placed on the average municipal water supply.
I'm not sure why you think water has to be boiled and charcoal is required when using a Sawyer filter. It has an absolute pore rating of 0.1. That's a pretty good filter. About the only things it won't block are viruses and heavy metals. You can add bleach to kill viruses and if you think your water has heavy metals then you need to find another source. And with a life expectancy of 100,000 gallons and the ability to backflush you'd be hard pressed to find one better. I've always carried an MSR Sweetwater that has an absolute pore size of 0.2 microns so it's not as good as the Sawyer and my filter only had a life expectancy of 750 liters!
One reason i,m funny about drinking water is while in Chicago some years ago i did a little water test.
i poured some water from the tap into a mason jar let it settle for a hour. then i back lit the jar with a flashkight.
using a large magnifing glass i saw what looked like tiny shrimp swiming in the water i,m dead serious.
who the heck knows what type of parasites they really were but the looked like shrimp. any ideas?
Maybe someone put some Sea Monkeys in your jar when you weren't looking? Or maybe someone put Sea Monkeys in the reservoir. It's a conspiracy!
Sea Monkeys, yeah, that's the ticket. Too funny.
Any one think we should post a disclaimer that the OP's question has kinda gone off the rails some what?
You know, just in case some one takes some of these posts literally?
Sea Monkeys : Quote
The animals sold as Sea-Monkeys are an artificial breed known as Artemia NYOS (New York Ocean Science), formed by hybridising different species of Artemia.[2] They undergo cryptobiosis or anhydrobiosis, a condition of apparent lifelessness which allows them to survive the desiccation of the temporary pools in which they live.[ < quote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkeys
Oh, Yeah......celsavs_lv.....You still with us?
Sea monkeys.......a diabolical plot by THE MAN.
Wait a minute. You of all people would know about SEA Monkeys. You and MadMax. Is this a Navy test? Will Crashdive find Sea Monkeys in the galley? Will MadMax find Sea Monkeys in his bunk? And who gave him the name MadMax and why? Does it have anything to do with Sea Monkeys? Tune in next week for the answer to these and other intriguing questions in another exciting adventure of.......Life Straw!
Sawyer make a filter which filters out viruses. It filters down to 0.02.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
https://sawyer.com/products/sawyer-p...-assembly-kit/
Well, I don't know about Oz, but here in Europe things like the Lifestraw can be pretty hard to find, almost impossible on the high street, even in camping stores and when you do find them, well, they're not cheap. It was cheaper including postage for me to import one from USA.
No wonder he left...
Sea monkeys, indeed!
Most places you can find are $20 USD, I'm not sure what the conversion would be to your currency. It's a great thing to have in any survival kit.
Learn to make a simple water filter and cook the water..you will be safer.
Ain't nobody got time for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tokwan
Seriously that takes time. And obviously fire. Used the sawyer many places with no problem. I can't be bothering to stop and build a fire to boil a little water 10 times a day. But this isn't the Malaysian forest.
A lot of people don't even filter high Sierra water. Not worth the risk to me but I feel plenty safe with just a sawyer.
crashdive a plot by the man i knew you'd come around.
I have a couple of the Aquamira Frontier water filters that fit in your pocket. They are for the cryptocrawlies and giardia things. No flavor enhancement like with the charcoal type filters.
Never had to use them before the new Sawyer portable stuff came around but they are still stashed around in various kits and whathaveyou.
Still can't get past the Sea Monkeys.....
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y13...psi9d0kyoz.png
So does the Life Straw take care of these?
Keep in mind........Quote:
Originally Posted by hayshaker
I AM THE MAN!
that's good which agency i was on a forum where a bunch of crackpots could'nt
decide which agency i was with. some said DEA,Homeland,and FBI. gotta love it
anyhow i was thrown under the bus without so much as a chance to say my piece in open
forum.I heard how the rats came out of the woodwork after i was banned .true story
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