A short YouTube demonstration by Ben Greenfield showing how to use a LifeStraw to drink from visibly dirty, algae-filled water in the Colorado wilderness. He explains potential contaminants (giardia, heavy metals), demonstrates holding the straw in the water and drinking, reports it "didn't taste too bad," and notes the device costs about $20.
Ben Greenfield
Colorado wilderness
$20
Okay. Yeah, we're filming, so whenever you want. Hey, I'm Ben from BenGreenfieldFitness.com and I'm out here in the Colorado wilderness. A friend of mine just pulled one of these out of his backpack. It's called a lifestraw. And I thought this would be really interesting for those of you who are out hiking and doing things out in the wilderness and maybe don't have access to water or want a backup. If you'll notice, this water is extremely. Well, not only is it slightly stagnant, but it's full of these little green floating algae compounds. It's likely that there could be giardia in there. A lot of kind of nasty heavy metals, a lot of stuff. This little $20 LifeStraw, which I don't make any money off of this or anything. I just think it'd be interesting for you to see this. You drink through it from water like this, and it filters everything, like, to the tiniest, tiniest particle. So I've never actually used one of these before, but I'm gonna see what it tastes like and see how it works. So apparently, you're supposed to hold it there in the water for just a second. So the filter kind of picks up. Just little bit of the particulate matter starts to suck it in there, and then you just drink.
I didn't get a lot out of there.
That's how it works. Didn't taste too bad.
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