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Reusable Water Bottles

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vanth

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I'm planning on buying water bottle so I can just fill it from my filtered jug of water in the fridge and take it everywhere, maybe filling it up from bubblers and so on.

There are so many types and brands though I'm not sure what's the best to get. I think I'll probably get a metal one (aluminium or steel) so maybe a Sigg. But then what size? 0.4L? 0.7L? 1L? Argh! Does anyone know how heavy they are? Klean Kateen are cheaper but I'm not sure if they are BPA free? Are the wide mouth ones comfortable? I find Nestea bottles too large, I can't walk and drink at the same time without spill something :S

Anyway, any advice or info is appreciated, and if there's an existing thread this can go into then mods feel free to move it.
 
I've got 2 Sigg bottles, a 600ml one:

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And a 1.5L one:

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If I go out for more than a few hours I'll take the bigger one. So if I'm working or if I go out shopping for the afternoon etc. On a hot day and being active, I'd have to fill it up at least once. I use the littler one to mix up some gatorade in for work or just water if I'm going out for an hour or two.

They are aluminium, so light. Someone in a disposals told me that the stainless ones are better because of the whole alzheimer's/aluminum thing. Which could be useless information because she didn't even sell Siggs :) They have a protective plastic coating on the inside of them.

You can get different shapes and different nozzles, but I like the basic one. Simple, no fancy bits! You're probably looking at about $20 and $30 respectively, totally worth it.. mine are great. They have a few dings and spots where the paint has chipped off, but that just adds character.


The only other brand I would consider is Nalgene. You can get a narrow mouth type if that's a problem. They are American and good quality, I have bought a few as presents. When they were first released they were marketed as indestructible but there are tonnes of videos on youtube of guys running over them with mowers and dropping them from great heights.


:)
 
I hadn't heard of Klean Kanteen, so I had a look at their website. They are an Australian company but there bottles are made in China. Sigg are manufactured in Switzerland.

You might like the Nalgenes vanth because they were first used as plastic lab equipment :)
 
Thanks heaps Klue, I'll check out the Nalgeen website. Sigg's have an internal coating, so the aluminium isn't leaching into your drink.
 
Klue I always worried about any water bottle that you cant see into.

Isnt it possible that algae or other crap could get inside those and you never know?
 
You realise primitive man just drank straight out of rivers Maz?

A little bit of priming and getting sick once or twice is actually good for the immune system.

I don't use a reusable bottle for general day to day at work (I buy a 1.5L water bottle and refill it for that week then recycle it and get another the next week) but I have two Nalgenes (plus a bladder) for hiking and they are a really high quality product.
 
^ I wouldn't drink out of a river these days unless it's boiled. I would drink from a Spring without boiling it though, If I could see it coming out of the ground.


The two bottles I have get the same treatment as my thermos. I wash them in hot soapy water about once a week, and you can see into them from the top anyway, just like a thermos.
 
lol, funny about that mate because I am always the first to drink from streams when we are away.

But they are running water which is a big difference to sitting water that over the months or years could be growing all sorts of horid things.
 
Is having a non-clear water bottle going to stop someone from washing it out at healthy intervals?

I mean if you're stupid enough to leave a bottle of water sitting somewhere for months without cleaning it then drinking the contents you're probably getting what you deserve.
 
The Sigg ones come with dissolving tablets and a brush for cleaning. I'm not so sure about the tablets. Seems like it might just be a way for sigg to just make more money.
 
Like I said, I just use some scalding hot soapy water, like I do with all my dishes, glasses etc. I don't really see how it would be any different to any jug that you would use for water. A bottle brush is a good idea, but I doubt algae would grow anyway? I have seen algae in Nalgene bottles (which are clear) but with no light, no algae? :)
 
You're right Klue, Algae are photosynthetic autotroph protists. No light = no carbohydrate production = no food = no algae. Also tap water is chlorinated so I'm not quite sure where this theoretical algae would come from anyway. I'd be much more afraid of bacteria if you're stupid enough not to clean your water bottle ever and the worst you're going to get is gastro for a few days anyway. So let's put all paranoia to rest.
 
Yeah your prolly right.............I guess its almost certainmly just something thats in my head.

And I also agree oin the clear meaning light can get in theory as well.

Actually maybe its a myth for mythbuster testing.
 
Not going to harp on about it anymore after this but you don't need mythbusters. Algae are photoautotrophs. This means they make their own food, in the form of carbohydrates, which they make by fixing carbon dioxide using the power of the sun. They need photons (light) or they can't live.

To my knowledge drinking algae isn't really going to hurt you anyway. Unless of course you mean blue-green algae, which are actually cyanobacteria and not algae at all. And they also need sun to make carbohydrates.

You said you've drunk from creeks before? You know that wispy green shit that swirls hanging from rocks in the rapids? That's a type of algae. You've drunken algae before like it or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototroph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
 
I use a Nalgene - love it. The bottle lid you can attach to a backpack if you want it for easy access.

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