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People need to stop the filtering gear fetish. Water filtering is unecessary 99% of the time and when it is necessary chlor-floc or boiling are better options. If you read the wilderness medicine texts the consensus is don't filter. They don't even discuss it beyond that, everything is about boiling times and temps, halogen concentrations and recognizing good/bad water sources. Filtering is mickey mouse shit.
/rant