Title: Loved it...until it broke
Product review: We used this for about 5 backpacking trips and loved it because it is lighter than a pump and you do not have to sit at the water source (full of Mosquitos). But on our last trip, it stopped working - the constant red blinking light. We replaced the batteries with no improvement. We waited until later in the day when the batteries were warmer - no improvement. The suggestion made in a comment to another reviewer that water from snowmelt is too pure and he should have added salt is interesting, but if that is the case, there should be a warning in large red letters on the instructions. If you are bringing a water purifier, you need it to be reliable. By the time you bring replacement batteries and iodine tabs as back-up, it is not really any lighter than a pump and far less reliable. I do not recommend this product. Should be zero stars, but that is not a choice!
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