Sawyer water filters are among the most significant developments in the history of environmental conservation. Consider these points:
The Sawyer filter completely eliminates the need to clean water by boiling. The average family of four who cleans their water by boiling burns the equivalent of 10 to 40 trees, 39 gallons of oil, or 211 pounds of natural gas. The only energy source required by Sawyer filters is gravity!
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THE BENEFIT:
Using Sawyer filters removes the need to cut down 10 to 40 trees (or equivalent brush), thereby reducing the floods and mudslides caused by deforestation. Not burning so much wood and brush (or gas and/or oil) substantially reduces air pollution. Trees naturally convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. The trees which otherwise would have been cut down and burnt can instead perform this vital carbon reduction.
Other families use bottled water rather than boiling. Unfortunately, this practice introduces non-degradable plastic bottles into the environment. Moreover, tremendous amounts of energy are consumed in the purification of the water and the production of these bottles. A family of four may go through as many as 6,000 bottles of water annually. Many municipalities in developing countries with poor water quality find themselves collecting and disposing of countless empty water bottles. Sawyer can match the convenience of bottled water because our filters flow so fast that you can have clean water in no time.
Sawyer filters offer clean water without boiling or bottling. That’s the environmentally friendly choice!
- Biological Filtration: removes 7 log (99.99999%) of all bacteria like salmonella, cholera, and E. coli. And 6 log (99.9999%) of all Protozoa such as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. You will find these removal rates to equal or exceed competitive options. Therefore Sawyer offers the highest level of filtration available.
- Viral Purification: The first (and thus far only) portable filtration device to remove viruses mechanically. It does so at a 5.5 log (99.9997%) rate, exceeding EPA and NSF recommendations.
