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TapGuard Brand: Guyot Designs Price: 14.95 Purchased At: REI TapGuard
posted by Wade in Adventure Racing, Adventure Travel, Backpacking, Beach Volleyball, Camping, Festivals and Events, Health & Fitness, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Kayak Touring, Llama Treks, Long Distance Trekking, Mountain Biking, Music Festivals, Road Cycling  Email to a friend
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This nifty little product will be out on the market just before Thanksgiving 2008 at REI stores. Then they will be distributed widely to other outdoor retailers after November 28th. The Tapguard won’t protect you from nasty stuff like Giardia. It is a water filter with a different purpose. The TapGuard aims to help people enjoy a better tasting tap water. Thus reducing the amount of bottled water we buy. Here’s how it works. * Pop a charcoal filter into your Tapguard (it will come with 2 filter cartridges). * Slide the Tapguard into the mouth of your favorite Nalgene, Camelback, or other wide mouthed water bottle. * Drink slowly, the water moves through the filter and removes chlorine and other chemicals in our tap water that make it taste like crap. I tested the product for Guyot and like it. Here are the pros and cons as I see it. Pros * Clean tasting water. It really did make the water taste better, more like bottled water. It takes some of the tangy taste out of the tap water. * Keep thousands of plastic bottles out of landfills. * Save money on bottled water if you are a bottled water buyer. * Will remove the iodine or chlorine taste from filtered water. Those of us who have used iodine or chlorine tablets to clean our backcountry water know what it tastes like. Anything that removes that taste is okay in my book. Cons * You have to drink very slowly. No gulping here. So if you’re parched after alot of activity you may want to just drink the tap water straight (you can drink it from the other side straight). * The early design allows some water to spill through the “drinking it straight” opening on the other side and onto your face. But Guyot assures that this has been corrected in the version going to market in November. Verdict Definitely worth a try. At the price these are going to sell at, it’s worth it to save some money on bottled water if you drink it, worth getting rid of the iodine taste from treated water, and worth the environmental savings as well. Comments
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