Katadyn Pocket

If you're wondering why this product commands the price that it does may I explain that it's because it works. The quality is off the hook. If you were using this item daily, year round, then I would suggest that you do...View More something a bit more sensible. But for those of us that use it a few weeks at a time each year, it will last a lifetime. Its incredibly easy to use. So easy, that at times you wonder if it's doing it's job. I cannot recommend this product highly enough.View Less

What makes this worth 300.00, a sawyer water filter cost 30.00 and will filter 100,000 gallons. To me it just seems 300.00 is pushing it for the price

Useless... The only place I would use this is in a mountain stream. All fresh water sources have large amounts of organic and inorganic chemicals...

This product filters about 50,000 liters of water and that happens to be the amount of water I will consume for the rest of my life. So I bought this mostly for psychological reasons with water pipe failure in the news all the...View More time. Sure, you could always boil your water and add a pinch of disinfectaant bleach but you can take this product with you on trails too and pump dirty water and get instant freash water. It's about the length of a candle and thick as a rolling pin.View Less

I bought this thinking this was going to outlive me. I used it once to test it worked by running tap water through it. I dried out the ceramic filter for 3 days on my kitchen counter top before I reassembled it because I knew...View More I didn't want moisture to be locked in the device. I thought it would have been bone dry. I opened it up a month later and the thing was covered in mold!! A new ceramic filter costs a lot of money and isn't even worth buying. If you want a water filter buy oneView Less