Thread: Recommendations needed for high quality drinking waterjerry cans

Originally Posted by Chucaro

My old motorhome I built 3 tanks, 1 300 lts and 2 100lts each and they never have a crack.
Have to do with the quality of the fabrication I guess.

no doubt, but most of the s/s tanks you can buy off the shelf are pretty crap, not to mention a trailer tends to move/shake/flex a bit more than a motor home

the decent off the shelf poly tanks are way stronger in my experience...

There are two main problems with the ones off the shelf, not reinforced in the corners and no buffer plates inside so in a 1/2 full 200 lts tank it will have a 100Kg hammer inside hitting the sides of the tank until fatigue cracks it.

The Lifesaver and Lifestraw ones certainly look the goods. Now I have to decide whether to just drop a filter unit into any of the water containers I already have, or to buy a specific larger unit such as a cube. The cube would be less mucking about but the filters on their own are cheaper and more portable.

Following advice on this thread I just went to Supercheap and bought some of the olive green 22L Proquip jerrycans which are currently on sale for $30. They are a noticible step above in quality compared to all the others I've seen.
I'm a happy camper!

with the addition of a brass ball tap.


you can also get them in 10l for short/ day trips which is always in car and easy to carry.


They can also be repaired by welding if required.


and theyre not that expensive.

Originally Posted by Aaron IIA

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

Aaron,is this the article? Have you used one, would be interested to see if it does the job, thanks, Bob

LifeStraw is a state-of-the-art water filter / purifier that removes 99.9% of waterborne bacteria and protozoan cysts.

Utilising Swiss microfiltration membrane technology, this filters down to 0.2 microns and therefore removes Giardia (common in Australia & New Zealand).

The Lifestraw is also lightweight (only 56 grams) and affordable, making it a great addition to your emergency survival kit.

The LifeStraw Personal:

? Will filter a minimum of 1000 litres of water
? Meets US EPA standard for a microbiological water purifier
? Removes a minimum of 99.9999% of waterborne bacteria
? Removes min. 99.9% of waterborne protozoan cysts
? Removes Giardia (important in Australia & New Zealand)
? Filter is a microfiltration membrane shaped in a bundle of hollow fibres (proprietary technology)
? Contains no chemicals
? Requires no electrical or spare parts for the lifetime of the straw
? Very easy to use and can be cleaned by blowing out