A Small Device That Could Save Your Life

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you needed to get water but the only water you could find was dirty or from a stream or river? How would you know it is safe? How would you make sure it is safe?

This may seem a little unrealistic to some, but making sure you have clean water is a pretty important thing. Having things along with you when you are camping or traveling that can make sure you can survive is not an extreme mindset. It's a common sense mindset. What is it the boy scouts say, be prepared?

That's where things like the Acquapura Personal Water Filter Straw comes in. This is something each person in your home should have one of. It's a small, lightweight personal filter that you can keep in a backpack, car emergency kit, or a bug out bag.

The filter has a triple layer filtration system that will make your water 100% safe by filtering 99.999% of waterborne bacteria greater than .01 microns. In other words, it gets even super tiny germs that could make you seriously sick from drinking the water. It not only filters the water, but it helps soften it and eliminate odors from it. Now I don't have a way to prove that personally, but it is certified by the WQA (Water Quality Association) and the TUV-SUD (an international testing & certification corporation). I do know that after trying it out, the water tasted clean and fresh, actually much cleaner that the water from our faucet!

The way this works is by placing the inlet mouthpiece in the water and sucking on the filter like you would a straw. The water travels through the activated charcoal filter and then a fiber UF membrane, cleaning the water as it goes through. By the time it reaches your mouth it is clean. No boiling, no chemicals to add, just clean water.

One really neat thing is that you can screw the filter on top of a plastic bottle and then drink from the bottle. It's a little awkward to drink like that, but it is much better than drinking nasty water! So it would be handy to fill bottles ahead of time with water where you can find it and then filter as you drink instead of just drinking the water, moving on and trying to find more water.

I was impressed with how clean the water tasted and how easy it was to use. The cap attaches securely keeping dust and debris out of the mouthpiece. The cap is easy to take on and off though. It comes with easy to follow instructions and storing life info that is important to know.

You can purchase your own Acquapura Personal Water Filter Straw HERE!

(PS ~ sorry for no personal pictures. My camera took broke! UGH!!)

The reviewer has been compensated with receiving the product free in order to bring you an honest review. All opinions are those of the reviewer.

Clean, Fresh Water! Nothing More!!

Clean drinking water is something we all think about a lot more than we used to. It's so easy for contaminants to get into our water, and if you are like me, you want to keep your family healthy in every way possible.

Blupure has a simple and effective ecofriendly 13 stage countertop water filter that helps keep your family's drinking water much safer that straight from the faucet. The filter cleans out the following contaminants:

chlorine

lead 

mercury 

fluoride

chloramine

bateria

sulfide

radiation

And that's just the start of all the chemicals it removes. It removes over 50 different chemicals from your water! When you stop and look at just that list of things, you realize how messed up our water is even in municipalities! 

The filter is pre-installed so you don't have to mess with doing that the first time. It took my husband less than 5 minutes to read the instructions and attach the filter to our kitchen sink. It's super easy and if you need to you can unattach it and the reattach later or even moved to a different sink. The filter does not take up a lot of counter space and has a generous hose length to it (I personally wish it was a little shorter), so you can place it far from the faucet.

The water is odor free and really has no taste. It's just water, which is something I think most of us are not used to! Operating the filter is easy. Just push the little knob in and turn on the water. Instead of going through the faucet it goes through the filter. When done, just pull the knob back out. The water will continue running through the filter until all that was in the hose and going through the filter has come out, so plan ahead to know when or approximately when to stop it, not wasting any!

The little "faucet" coming out of the filter unit can be moved off to the side so it is not hanging over you sink all the time, making room to do what you need to in your sink. 

One really nice thing is that filter inside the unit is good for 1500 gallons of water or about one year! That's great! 

I think the only thing that we have not liked about the Blupure Water Filter is that the flow of water coming out of the faucet does not have as much pressure as it did before. The stream is a little slower. But we are adjusting to that.

There are a few things you need to be aware of using the filter.

~ Never run hot water through it

~ Keep the countertop clean and dry to avoid attracting bacteria or germs

~ Ensure the housing of the unit is always clean to provide maximum protection

~ If not using the filter for several days (Like while on vacation) let the water run through the filter for a few minutes as the sitting water in it could absorb the bitter flavor of the Zinc Oxide used to filter the water.

We are really enjoying the filter and love knowing that we have fresh, clean tasting water to drink all the time! Oh and with this filtered water, you can make the best coffee and tea! WOW!

You can purchase your own Blupure ecofriendly 13 stage countertop water filter HERE!

Replacement cartridges can be found for it HERE!

We received samples of the products for the purpose of review. No other compensation was given. All opinions expressed here are those of the author.