There are all sorts of water purification systems out there, but there’s few that can purify properly without the need for purification tablets, or waiting around for sediment to settle.

The Lifesave bottle designed by British inventor Michael Prichard is a big breakthrough in portable filtration. It won the soldier Technology 2007 award and also won best in test of bushcraft and survival skills magazine. It’s has a unique filter that removes 99.9999% of all bacteria, viruses, cysts, parasites, and fungi from the water supply. It’s 15 nanometres filter can cut out almost all viruses which are generally around 25 nanometres.

Not content with sitting back Michael Prichard has continued to improve on the device, adding the lifesaver hydrocarry to the product range. This is basically a rucksack mounted shoulder tube, and integrated dualpump combination to let soldiers quickly filter water without having to remove the device from their backpack.

For larger scale delivery of filtered water, they are also working on larger water containers for family’s. There is even a seawater version due out soon which should be an essential addition to every sailors toolkit. We hope that the costs of these bottle will come down enough so that they can be distributed to relief centres in 3rd world countries. So many lives could be saved if victims of hurricane, flood, and tsunami disasters had access to these kinds of devices.

The lifesaver bottle currently retails for £116.95 inc VAT, it can be bought online, and shipped internationally directly from www.lifesaversystems.com