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HydroBlu Versa Flow Light-Weight Water Filter for Camping, Backpacking, Running, Travel, and Emergency Preparedness
The Versa Flow was designed to be as versatile as you. It easily adapts to your lifestyle and can be screwed onto a plastic water bottle, used inline with your hydration pack, used as a gravity system or bucket filter, or can be used as a straw so you can drink directly from the water source.The Versa Flow water filter is one of the lightest and most convenient personal water filters on the market. Weighing in at only 2 ounces you don’t have to worry about adding extra weight to your pack or try to find a dedicated spot for it. It will fit virtually anywhere. This water filter is perfect for backpacking, hiking, camping, travel, and emergency preparedness.
Bacteria Removal
Lightweight inline water filter
The Versa Flow allows you to be able to backflush the filter, clearing out all of the particulate and increasing the lifespan of the filter. If you consistently backflush the filter you can use it almost indefinitely. This means no additional filters, cartridges, pumps, iodine drops, or batteries to ever buy again.
Versa Flow Light-Weight Water Filter Benefits
- Removes 99.999% of bacteria, including Giardia, E coli, cryptosporidium, and more
- Flow rate: 1 Gallon in 5 minutes
- Backflushing Capabilities for longer life
- Weighs only 2 ounces
Versa Flow Light-Weight Water Filter Features
Although it is lightweight, it is heavy in features. Every filter is built to exacting standards and exceeds EPA standards for filtration. The Versa Flow has many tiny tubes called hollow fiber. Hollow fiber works through size exclusion. Meaning the hollow fiber tubes have thousands of tiny holes (0.1 microns) that block 99.9999% of harmful bacteria. We filter water through the outside of the tubes by bending the hollow fiber. This dramatically increases the surface area and flow rate of the filter while protecting the filter integrity itself.
Versa Flow Light-Weight Water Filter Uses and Benefits
Easy to use and great for filtering water on the go.
Perfect for adventure and endurance sports where carrying all of your water is unrealistic.
The ideal choice for thru-hiking or lightweight backpacking.
Great for hiking, backpacking, and survival.
Owen's Mom
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2024
Hopefully, we'll never have to find out if it works good.
Chris
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2024
Used this filter with a platypus gravity bag system in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) for five nights and had no issues. After a couple days it began to slow a bit but a quick backflush cleared it out. Even raising the clean water bag to backflush some clean water sufficient. The Sawyer syringe also fit to backflush. I havr used the larger Sawyer squeeze filter for a couple trips but that clogged earlier and more often. Tried the Sawyer mini filter on one trip and that was awful and clogged constantly. I'll be sticking with the Hydro Blu.
Tieg Briggs
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021
Easy to use
Rod I.
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2021
We did 4 days in a wilderness area recently. For a clean water source we used the Versa Flo filter with the 2 very light weight canteens in the kit. They worked well together, came with aluminum clips to hook them to our packs.To fill the "dirty" canteen you need a container of some kind. At least I couldn't fill it otherwise, but I was carrying one anyway. If we were filling up streamside along the trail we just screwed the filter on the dirty bag and squirted it into the clean canteen bag. If we were at the camp I screwed the 2 bags to the filter and hung them with the full dirty bag above and the empty clean bag below. In 10 or so minutes the clean bag had been filled. Easy Peasy.light, efficient, easy and convenient. What more can I say?
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on May 30, 2021
Arrived fast! Everything works good for our needs.
Jean-Yves Fiset
Reviewed in Canada on January 31, 2021
Works extremely well. One of the bags became leaky, but there is a spare one. Highly recommended.
D.A.N.
Reviewed in Canada on August 1, 2020
Works well, but you have to remember or identify which is the CLEAN side and which is the NOT CLEAN side and see that you drink from the correct side. Mark the Clean side with something bright or obvious. When you're trekking and you're exhausted and de-hydrated you may not have the presence of mind to see which is which. But it is a life saving device if you get that right.
Joe
Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2019
I found my backpacking water filter!Here is what I like about it:It is lightweight, at under 2 ouncesGreat designed with threading on both endsA silicon cap on each end helping you avoid contamination on the clean water side.A great priceIf I was going to design the ideal backpacking water filter, this would be it. I am using it in conjunction with a Sawyer 1 gallon dirty water fill bag and a Platypus 2L hydration bag.
al tishal oti
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019
I have liked, used and abused a HydroBlu filter for a couple of years and decided I should probably get a new one. It’s good to see some improvements to the bottles.I really like the increased volume, clear panel, biner clip and handle. For the previous model I ditched the bottles for clear Evernew bottles, but these new HydroBlu ones are good. One thing I have changed is the bottle cap. The pop-up ones that came with the bottles leak under pressure in your pack. Smart Water bottle lids fit just fine. Although I would prefer the lids to be attached to the bottle (like the Evernew lids). Losing the cap in a rushing creek could be a big problem. I might still try to get one of those lids onto the HydroBlu bottle.Another detail I would have changed is to put the biner clip on the same side as the handle for easy rolling and fastening when empty. Also to make the handle big enough for 3 or 4 fingers to fit through.Having hanging points on the top and the bottom of the bottle is great!The filter is just as good as ever and I don’t anticipate any issues with it.It’s a good product.
KDM
Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2018
Just transitioned into backpacking after years of day-hiking and car camping and decided I needed a filter. Bought it for my first backpacking trip in Algonquin and it worked like a charm. Very reasonably priced, flow rate is decent, conveniently screws onto pop bottles and Smart Water bottles (though I used them screwed onto the bottom of the filter to catch the filtered water so I can't speak for whether they leak when used upside-down at the top of the filter), and the collapsible bottles held up well and didn't leak when screwed onto the top. Bit of a no-brainer, but if you are filtering silty water you might want to remove the visible particulate before filtering because it's tough to remove via back flushing, but apart from that this little filter works great.Update: After 2 years of occasional use I can say that it's holding up well. The flow rate has slowed a bit, as will all in-line filters, but it still works perfectly well. The collapsible bottles still work fine as well. This little filter is excellent imo.
Kaitlyn
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2018
I bought the Versa Flow water system for a four day backpacking trip along the lost coast. I found the filter very quick and easy to use and had no problems with use or flow rate. Carrying all of the parts of the system was a bit tedious and I only ended up needing the water filter and both filter bags, but the water tasted fresh and I was able to easily get enough water when I needed it. I did not have to backflush the filter during the four day trip at all and saw no slow in the flow rate, but I did have friends on the trip with the same filter that had to backflush the filter three or four times along the trip. Great little system for backpacking!
Brent Hugh
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
This worked very well and is a good value. Seems to have higher throughput than (for example) a Sawyer Mini. It might be because it just has more surface area (the area with the filter tube looks larger than the Sawyer Mini, about in proportion to how much more water it filters).The window so you can see the status of the filter is helpful.The fittings and bags it comes with are good. You will need some way to backflush the filter (ie, a large syringe) - not included in the kit.We went to the neighborhood hardware store and bought 9 feet of clear flexible tubing to match the size of the enclosed tubing. Setting the bag or bucket with the dirty water at least 5 or 6 feet higher than the clean water bucket increases the pressure rather dramatically and produces a lot more water faster. We also used a 5 gallon bucket to settle the dirty water and another to receive the clean water.We were using the filter in the Green & Colorado Rivers, which are very silty. So we first clarified the water using alum (1 teaspoon alum per 5 gallons dirty water, stir and let sit for at least 15-60 minutes but preferably overnight). Using this method plus backflushing before & after every use, we were able to easily filter 4-5 gallons per day in reasonable time.When backflushing, you want to do backflush rather forcefully. I used a large syringe and generally gave it all the pressure I could by hand; supposedly you can backflush with the pressure from a regular kitchen tap or the like and it is all the better.
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