Sawyer All-In-One Filter

The Sawyer Squeeze is an innovative water filter that differs from the typical pump models. Rather than pumping water through hoses like most other filters, the Squeeze is a compact filter that screws right on to a small mouth bottle and allows you to drink right through it, giving it one of the fastest treatment times of any other option we evaluated, unless you need to treat large quantities of water. If that is the case, the Sawyer Squeeze is not ideal, because squeezing water through the filter is tedious. It has many desirable features for a hiker or backpacker: simple to use, long lasting, small, and lightweight. The filter comes with three collapsible bottles of different sizes for the user to customize their water collection options or to allow them to gather a large quantity of water at once. Since it only weighs 2.7 ounces for the filter, it is a very enticing water treatment option for backpackers, rivaling Aquamira Water Treatment Drops since it does not use chemicals. It even competes with the SteriPen, except that it does not treat for viruses like UV treatments. The drawbacks are that it is awkward to drink from, the flow is not fast for squeezing water into pots or someone else’s' bottle, and it is difficult to collect water from small, non-flowing sources and the material the bags are made of do spring leaks. Make sure you have back up squeeze bags. I give this filter our Best Buy Award for costing half as much as most other filters and for lasting for a million gallons, making it the most economical water treatment option.