[Askel5]

I certainly hope you run it through a Brita, Romulus. (Or, then again, given your "sweet-smelling" dogs, perhaps yours IS an entirely different Mississippi River than mine!)

My dream filter: Katadyn.

I figure I might end up with CLEAR water with one of those things.

[Romulus]

I'm a Sweetwater man myself -- except for the time I forgot it in the car, setting myself up for the Great Bear War on the AT.

Why they name a filter after Katahdin is a mystery to me. I climbed Katahdin once. It was a dry and rocky sub-arctic tundra. Thoreau Spring is the only high water on the mountain, not reliable in the summertime, and well below the summit.