Water filters for drinking from streams

I want to spend some time in North Scotland away from civilisation, wondering if anybody has any recommendations for water purification, thinking of getting this http://fresh2o.org/product/sawyer-mini-filter/ as military and Sean Conway use it so it must be reliable

Jet boil or Trangia + canteen. Or just chance it.

Dunno... plenty of nasties in sheep shit that gets carried in from fields by rainwater and could wipe you out for a few days. I'd just take a packet of purifying tabs with me to be on the safe side. Pretty inexpensive although the cheaper ones taste chemically.

I used the Sawyer straw in Scotland, I'm still alive.

Thanks everyone, I tried tabs before and they got damp in my kit bag after a week in - 1 testimonial for the sawyer and online reviews is enough to convince me, seems like an amazing bit of kit

http://waternlife.com/?gclid=CN2A0aTVoM4CFe0V0wodz7ACag

Did you spot this in your research?

You can buy it incorporated into a water bottle as well.

https://www.newmen.co.uk/products/lifestraw-go-water-filter-bottle?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=16308072963&gclid=CNnaueXVoM4CFcRuGwodLZQHxw

I am not sure if you're on foot or on bike, but if you're on foot and consequently high up, the fast-flowing burns are almost certainly fine to drink from.

The Aqua Mira frontier pro is not as highly rated as the Sawyer for removing nastys, that and the filter element was fragile, mine cracked in half so was never really doing much filtering.
They have updated with new changeable filters, but again not as good as a Sawyer.
I ditched the Pro, at the time i got it the Sawyer mini was not available, just the larger Sawyer which takes care of heavy metals and pesticides etc etc (They claim)

I bought a Sawyer and some extra bags off amazon for £30
So far it remains untested.

My master plan was to use some pre-bought mineral water bottles to start with and just refill the bottles and bags as i go, there are 2 bottle top standards, the Sawyer/Frontier pro will screw directly onto the right one........
Small and very lightweight, no moving parts or batteries and if looked after a very long lifespan, i cant remember what the Pro was but it was either 180 gallons or 180 liter lifespan

In theory you could drink Thames river water and live :) (although Thames is actually not a death sentence like in the olden days)

Oh and weird shit like this will reduce the filter lifespan or shut it down :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmFx1ZjOEIg

I was looking at this a while ago and struggled to work out what exactly the filters do filter and whether boiling/tabs was necessary after to get rid of bacteria.

Why not MTFU and drink your own piss Bear Grilles style?

oh god why did I google "piss drinker" searching for an "appropriate and amusing" picture?

With the Sawyer (in theory) you could get Grylls to piss in bottle, then murder and eat him and filter his piss back to water, kinda win win, a drink and lunch :)

I've used this filter water bottle before
(travel tap water filter bottle)
(http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/bushcraft/PA101.html)

would recommend, taking it on the nc500 in a couple of weeks

Drinking straight from fast flowing streams has never hurt me. Fill my bottle/Camelbak when I'm out in the hills all the time.