The best strategy is to not need first aid in the first place. Ensure your brakes are in order, don’t overdo things, drink enough.

But you don’t want to drink water with bacteria or protozoa in it! You could add a micropur tablet and wait for an hour or filter your water.

Bag with bacteria

The DayCap in-bottle filter from Platypus fits perfectly on my old and rugged 2-litre MSR Dromedary waterbag. This water bag, by the way, was bought more than 25 years ago, and it is still in perfect shape – no delamination, no odors. Fantastic quality! So that’s really cool.

You can fill the bag up with “dirty” water from, say, the Rhine that you’re cycling along, and squish out a

stream of water without bacteria.

This way you can fill all kinds of biking or hiking bottles quickly and endlessly for yourself and your friends.

A lot of wigglies I’d rather not ingest.

You can also use it the original way and insert it in

a Camelback bottle and suck the clean water out.

as well as:

many other brands.

I prefer to keep my bottles bacteria-free though. I sometimes put electrolyte tablets or maltodextrine in my bottles, which I wouldn’t want to put through the filter.

When you’re done with producing clean water you should

dry it
roll it up together
and store it in a protective and durable nanobaggy.

Unlimited clean water freedom!

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