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LifeStraw Personal is a straw-shaped water purifier. Makes it possible to drink clean water even in difficult conditions.

Lifestraw Personal is a handy travel companion when you're not sure about the water quality at your destination or you already have too much weight. The fixed filter cleans 99.9999% of the bacteria that travel with the water and 99.9% of the parasites. Thanks to its straw-like shape, it is easy to drink directly from the water. LifeStraw does not contain chemicals and its use does not require pumping - you just place the filter in the water and suck.

LifeStraw has an unlimited shelf life and has been tested around the world in the harshest conditions. The straw has a long-lasting membrane microfilter that can withstand up to 4000 l of filtered water. This is enough drinking water for one person for more than 5 years.

For every LifeStraw filter purchased, a small amount of money will be donated to FollowtheLiters.com. Buying one filter is enough to give one child in Africa clean drinking water for one school year.

Product information:

• Protects against bacteria, parasites, microplastics, dirt, sand and turbidity
  • Protects 99.999999% from bacteria (including E. coli, Salmonella), 99.999% from parasites (including Giardia and Cryptosporidium) and 99.999% from micro plastic, dirt, sand and turbidity
• Tested, durable and BPA-free
• Easy to clean and store
• Very light, weight only 49 g
• Service life up to 5 years
• The ultimate survival tool
• Your purchase has an impact: one purchase = one child = one year of clean drinking water.

How it works:

Inside the LifeStraw water purifier are hollow fibers specially designed for this purpose - the so-called ultrafilter technology, which can be found e.g. from water treatment plants that clean drinking water in cities. Inside the LifeStraw filter there is a large amount of these fibers intended for filtering, which outwardly look like the undisputed king of all pastas, i.e. spaghetti, but they are actually much thinner. Each fiber has pores 0.2 microns in diameter - 500 times thinner than a human hair - and when water passes through these hollow fibers, only bacteria- and parasite-free, clean drinking water gets through the pores of the fibers. Bacteria, parasites and dirt do not enter the user's mouth with the whistle. No chemicals are used in the physics-based filtration process.

LifeStraw® technology has been tested in independent conditions, in various laboratory and research programs. It is certified and meets all EU directives and standards (10/2011 and 1935/2004) and the Microbiological Water Purification standard according to the US EPA 1987 Protocol. Removes e.g. the following stalwarts:

Bacteria:

• Salmonella
• Campylobacter
• Coli bacteria
• Cholera
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa (rod bacteria)
• Shigella, i.e. dysentery (causes diarrhea)

Parasites, i.e. parasites:

• Giardia lamblia, an intestinal parasite
• Cryptosporidium parvum
• Entamoeba histolytica, i.e. Gut Amoeba