H2Oh Yuck

When we sold these previously, @brennyn asked an important question:

How is there more than one product for this niche? How are there so many people drinking water out of creeks and ponds? I drink filtered water but it comes from a filter installed on my kitchen sink, and I can fill a drinking vessel before I leave home.

The responses were comprehensive and thoughtful.

@shandamiller discussed traveling to places where the water can be iffy to drink:

Having a refillable water bottle that filters has been great and saves on waste.

And highlighted a pretty straightforward use case:

I imagine it is also used by people who do back country hiking/backpacking.

@rpstrong echoed this last point:

I moved from there to a house surrounded by national forest, 6,000 feet up in the San Jacinto mountains. Numerous hiking trails, many a cold, mountain spring bubbling through the ground - and just as many warnings to filter before drinking.

And also discussed an even more dire scenario:

I lived about half a mile from the Northridge earthquake epicenter in '94. No power or gas for several days thereafter, but a trickle of water would refill a toilet - eventually. Unfortunately, the water was non-potable - it was contaminated somewhere up stream of us.

@gwrankin mentioned keeping something similar in the car, just in case:

It’s always nice to err on the side of caution.

This last bit really hammers it home. These are ‘better safe than sorry’ products. You might not buy them knowing exactly how you’ll use them. When you need them, however, you’ll be glad you have them.

But here’s my question: what about water that’s safe to drink… but it just sorta tastes not-so-great. You know what I mean? You stop at a hotel or a rest area while on a road trip, and you fill your water bottle up at a sink or a water fountain. And it just tastes not exactly tainted, but still yucky.

Will these help with that?

Please tell me in the comments, so I can decide if I want to buy these.

Because, that’s what this is all about, isn’t it? My own personal comfort.