Coming from a person that likes to boil any unknown source of water. Boiling works well to make water safe to drink, I love and use my Thermette for this; I used it this weekend when camping.

But boiling does nothing to improve the taste of water. It’s nice to have water taste like the water we all are use to drinking. A filter does this. I have and use a Katadyn Hiker filter, it’s going on 4-years old and it works great.


I’ve read several reviews of the Steripen, enough to see it has reliability problems. Before you buy one do a search for Steripen reviews to make sure it’s what you want.