Another Kickstarter project should get your attention as an airsoft player, milsimer, outdoors person, or someone who just wants to be ready all the time. One of the important things that we need to bring with us when we go out to the field is water to keep us hydrated to keep us alive. In these days, sources of clean drinking water in the environment are hard to come by unless you are located in a pristine location untouched by civilization. Even the creeks, ponds, and rivers that we encounter may not necessarily be clean enough to give us the water we need to live on.

In case of calamities or war, the ability to be able to get drinking water becomes even more urgent. Nowadays, we need water filtration and purification devices so we can use the water that is around us, even that dirty water that you dread to drink.

There are already many of these purification devices commercially available, but for Pure Hydration, a company founded Jon Grant who has experience in Marine and Army water programs, it is about to product a water filtration device that can meet the standards of the military. Pure Hydration already has expertise and they want to bring this expertise and their technology in the form of the Pure Hydration Sentinel InLine Individual Water Purification Device.

Now on Kickstarter, they want to raise funds for their Sentinel prototypes to undergo external certification against a standard called NSF International Protocol P248 and approval for military use.

How does this work? Pure Hydration has this to say:

Pure Hydration purifiers utilize a non-woven, tortuous path depth filter media, with up to 400 layers of pores between high surface area sub-micron fibers. The fibers create a natural electrical charge which cover the void volume of the pores between the fibers and remove negatively charged sub-micron particles, e.g. viruses, through electroadhesion and electro adsorption, while larger particles, e.g. bacteria and parasitic protozoan pathogens, are caught within the fiber matrix. Powdered carbon and silver ion components within the filter media further neutralize a broad spectrum of contaminants, so that while water can pass through the filter with minimized pressure, what comes out is clean and safe to drink.

The Pure Hydration Sentinel can provide protection from waterborne contaminants and microbiological pathogens such as:

• 99.99997% removal of Bacteria (Cholera, E. coli, Salmonella typhi, etc.)
• 99.999% removal of Viruses (Hepititis A, Norovirus, Polio, etc.)
• 99.993% removal of Parasitic pathogens (Cryptosporidium, Giardia, etc.)
• Our purifying filters also provide protection against such as heavy metals (Cadmium, Chromium, Mercury, etc.) and other inorganic compounds, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs - Benzine, Chloroform, 1,1-1,2 – Dichloroethane, MTBE, etc.)

Also, it has been independently tested for compliance with the:

• European Drinking Water Directive Council Directive 98/83/EC
• UK Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000
• US Environmental Protection Agency – EPA’s Microbiological Reduction requirements as shown in the US National Primary Drinking Water Regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act
• World Health Organisation - Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality First Addendum 3rd Edition

Convinced that you want this product to succeed? Then you can pledge an amount to help raise funds for certification.  They are raising an amount of £35,000 and as of writing, it has raised almost a thousand pounds. Still a long way to go, but if you believe in this project, then you can help in achieving their objective of having this certified and adopted by the U.S. Military.

If this gets realised as a product, it is something that may want included in your bug out bag.