Water, an essential ingredient to life. When I go hiking water is number one on my list. How much do I need for the hike? Is there a good place to refill my water somewhere on the hike? Do I need to bring my filter along for this hike ? All important questions that help determine how far I can go on a hike, and or how much weight I’m going to have to carry on the hike. The Lifestraw Go can help with these determinations. If you don’t like carrying a lot of extra weight and you know that there are reliable water sources close to the hike you could just carry this bottle and forget about the 2-3 liter bladder system. Now there are trade off’s. When I’m hiking I don’t necessary want to stop all the time just to get water, I don’t mind the extra weight for the convenience of having water available all the time, the bottle only holds 650 ml of water or about a 5th of the water I would usually carry on a hike so its not going to replace my usual system of carrying water for most hikes. What I can see it doing for me though is giving me piece of mind that if I’m in a tough situation I could always just bring the bottle with me and were ever there is water I would have a reliable source of drinking water. If I’m camping somewhere and go out on a small day hike and don’t want all the extra weight I could just bring along the bottle to save weight. I even see this as a good item just to have in your home in case of emergency’s so that you can have a reliable way of getting water for each family member ( get one for each of you) in case the proverbial you know what hits the fan.

I want to say thank you to the folks at Eartheasy.com for sending me this until to review.

This is a really cool product and in case you are not aware for every Lifestraw product that is bought  Vestergaard and its distributor partners contribute part of the funds to distribute LifeStraw^® Community institutional water purifiers to schools in developing countries you can see about this in the video below.