Have you seen this solution for clean drinking water on-the-go? I tested it for over a month. Let me tell you about its key features and how it can work for you.

ETA stands for Emergency Preparedness, Travel, Adventure. Three of the things that require clean drinking water. This water bottle filter does what you need it to do…filter water, so you can have clean, great tasting hydration wherever you go, whatever you do!

A Water Bottle Filter for Emergency Preparedness

The ETA Water bottle filter comes ready to use. That means on even your worst day, you can get the best water. It’s simple to use. All you need to do to get started is remove the sticker from the bottom of the filter labelled, “Please Remove Before Using.” This is a simple process, for which I feel I need to give no instructions. Once that happens, you can use the filter. Fill up the bottle, but not too much, just to the ridge below the cap.
Here’s how to use it:

Having this water bottle filter on hand for emergency preparedness is a great comfort. I try to keep water on-hand, and I often treat it with bleach, but this filter removes the taste and odor from the chlorine. What does it filter? Lots of things:

Removes and/or Reduces up to 99.99% of the following zones of contamination:

Aesthetic Contaminants

Offensive tastes, odors, silt, sediment, and chlorine (I have a well at home, so my water comes out clean, clear, and tasteless, but at work or when I travel, I can’t stand tap water from municipal sources. This filter gave me great tasting water at the office, in hotels, and at the airport.

Chemical Contaminants

VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds, like solvents and petroleum fuels), toxic chemicals, THMs (trihalomethanes like fluoroform, chloroform, chloroform, and some other gross stuff), PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls - no longer produced in the US, but still present in some things), PCEs (perchloroethylene), PFOAs (perfluorooctanoic acid), PFOSs (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), detergents, herbicides, pesticides (DDT), benzene, atrazine and other harmful agricultural wastes

Dissolved Solid Contaminants

Heavy metals, aluminum, asbestos, cadmium, chromium 6, mercury, arsenic, lead, copper, nitrates & nitrites and up to 90% fluoride

Radiological Contaminants

Radon 222 & 226 Cesium 134 & 137

https://www.etaliving.com/pages/owners-manual

I used this water bottle filter regularly for over a month so I could test it. I especially loved being able to take it through TSA empty at the airport and filling it up o the other side so I could have clean water to drink (that I didn’t have to buy at airport prices).

This filter removes way more than many filters do, which makes it perfect for everyday use and for using in urban areas. It’s also great for keeping in your car or emergency kit. As long as you can find a water source, you can have clean water, even if your city has done a terrible job of keeping your tap water clean.

Life has been pretty crazy recently. I have been out of the house, working or traveling, and hydration is as important as ever. In stressful times, or regular times, the last thing you want to have to worry about is making sure you have something to drink.

The one single drawback of this filter is that it is not rated for filtering bacteria and viruses, but the drawback of the filters that do are that they don’t filter out all the chemicals and other contaminants that this one does. If your concern is heavy metals like lead or mercury, VOCs, or other contaminants, then this is the filter for you. If you are drinking from a murky beaver pond, that hasn’t been contaminated by humans, just animal waste and carcasses, there are other options for that.
For a full report of the lab testing look here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0577/0405/4989/files/ETA-Lab-Chart.pdf?v=1633007794