Thread: Recommendations needed for high quality drinking waterjerry cans

Can anyone recommend a water container with a built-in filter? Doesn't need to be that big (maybe 10 litres) as I would fill it from other water containers and it could be light enough to move around while camping. Can't be hard plastic as they crack bouncing around in a vehicle. A washable filter would be good if possible. Any ideas?

The Lifesaver ones look the goods but are pricey.
LIFESAVER cube | 5000UF litres of portable water filtration


I don't want stoneware. The Brita ones look breakable.

Yes the Lifesaver bottle and or Jerry cans are expensive but if your stuck in the middle of no where with polluted crappy dangerous water and it's either drink it or be in the poo then a Lifesaver product could end up literally living up to its name and being a life saver.

LifeStraw Personal for about $32, LifeStraw go for about $45, or LifeStraw Family for about $130. The family unit filters up to a claimed 18000 litres, at 9~12 litres an hour.
Aaron

I have one of these Poly Water Jerry Can 20L | Water Tanks | Opposite Lock

Absolutely the ducks nuts. No plastic taste and an in built tap that you have to struggle to rip off.

I carry the Lifesaver Jerry Can and would recommend the financial outlay.

Here are some reasons :

1. the filter will remove stuff smaller than a virus from the water, making the water INJECTABLE Quality. It won't remove salts, so it wont recycle your urine. This means that any water source with a safe mineral content, becomes an acceptable water source.

2. while I'm happy to drink creek water, I won't put it in my water tanks for fear or starting a microbe breeding program. The LIFESAVER allows me to refill my water tanks with sterile water and keep them clean.

3. While the Defender carries on-board water, the Lifesaver allows me to set up a tap on a picnic table instead of a puddle at the back of the car.

The jerrycan is quite robust, but having said that, I have had one develop a very fine crack that only leaked under pressure. I would recommend not using the hole in the middle to clamp it down with, but mounting it in a bracket, as mine developed the leak after being clamped to the roof rack, despite foam backing top and bottom.

On the downside, it's slow at 2 litres per min, but if you just need washing water you don't need it filtered.

The water bottle version gives you better portability, but with refilling water tanks, I want to be able to filter greater volumes of water at a time.

I was looking at those Opposite Lock cans as the tap is protected, but now Im going down the trailer route Im planning a decent sized tank.. So, with that in mind, if you're planning on carrying 6 Jerry Cans full of water, and then having a decent changeable in line filter, have you thought about running a 120lt stainless tank with in line filter and remote tap? If this does not work, my recommendation is also the OL Jerrys with protected tap.

Originally Posted by Sitec

have you thought about running a 120lt stainless tank with in line filter and remote tap?

been there, got sick of the tanks cracking and went back to poly jerry cans.

very helpful sometimes for getting you load spread evenly as well ...