• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 month ago

    A Brita filter =/= a survival straw. There ARE filters you can use to drink directly from water sources in nature that will filter out all contaminants but a Brita ain’t one.

    • the_weez@midwest.social
      2·
      1 month ago

      Exactly, there are filters for tap water and there are backpacking or survival filters for filtering dirty water. I use both regularly, but wouldn’t ever take my filter pitcher hiking.

    • AshLassay@lemmy.world
      0·
      1 month ago

      Do those straws also take out pathogens? I thought you’d still need to boil the water pre filtering.

      • Stitch0815@feddit.org
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yes

        At least bacteria. Viruses are a whole different beast but usually viruses are also not the problem in natural watersources.

        Be free comes to mind, very popular in europe. Sawyer filters are very popular in the US

        There are also combo filters that filter sediment and bacteria and pass the water through a charcoal filter to remove taste and organics.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 month ago

    Boil your water, then after it cools run it through a charcoal and/or osmosis filter. Even then, it’s still not great. Commercial/community water treatment isn’t some silly little optional process.

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      0·
      1 month ago

      If you’re going to do all that and still end up with “not great”, why not just distill it?

        • fiddledeedee@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          distilled water is fine the issue is if you drink mostly or only distilled water, it doesn’t have the minerals you’ll find in tap water and long-term missing those isn’t healthy. even so you can get those minerals from other sources like food or supplements most of the time.

          • spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            1 month ago

            Unless you’re starving to death, you absolutely get those from food. The amount of minerals in even hard water is miniscule compared to what’s in food. Drinking distilled or RO water, even regularly is not going to hurt you.

            Drinking giardia on the other hand…

  • Apytele@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 month ago

    I feel like boiling PLUS the Brita would be a pretty solid combo. Boil to kill everything then Brita to remove the remaining inert sediment. I can’t think of any metals or anything that there would be enough of in river water to hurt you after you’ve killed anything that was alive.