After 2 1/2 years of boiling and then filtering our drinking water, Bryan and I did a little research back in America to try to make it easier. While we were staying with Bryan's parents, one of their neighbors came over to talk to me about a water filter that he knew a lot about. He works with water treatment and has been recommending this water filter to missionaries and short team volunteer teams in order for them to have safe drinking water on their journeys. I went online and looked into it and it sounded too good to be true. The water filter is good up to one million gallons!!! Yeah, everything else we looked into required filters every 3 to 6 months and the filters were close to $100 each. This filter also gets out 99.99% of bacteria, viruses, and protozoa/cysts, also a major bonus. The cost of the water filter is $116 (US dollars) and it is small and very easily fits into a suitcase and can be put on the tap or built into a bucket.
We have been experimenting as a family for just over a week and the good news is, we are all doing great. It should have hit within the first 3 days if we were going to get sick so I think we are in the clear. Unfortunately one of our volunteers had a very bad flu bug when we arrived and Bryan has appeared to have picked that up ( started yesterday with the runs, fever, chills and aching all over) but we do not think it is water related at all. I am not sure what we will do with all our new found free time since we are not wasting time boiling water, although I can think of about 68 other ways to distract myself and use that new time (yep, you guessed it we have about 65 kids on campus plus my 3 not to mention staff I'd like to hang out with more)!
I am attaching the link in case anyone else has been looking for a good water filter :)
http://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-PointTwo-Purifier-Bucket-Adapter/dp/B0051HHNJ8/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1387126869&sr=8-11&keywords=sawyer+one+water+filter
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