Why This is the Last Water Filter I'll Ever Buy!
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2023
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For this video I traveled to Honduras with Sawyer to learn how the Water Women are using Sawyer Squeeze water filters to provide clean water to their homes and communities! I knew this would be an INCREDIBLE adventure, but I never expected to learn so much about water filtration, and the power of clean water, as I did from the Water Women. These women are doing life-saving work in Honduras, and the system that they have built is helping bring clean water to people around the world. What these women taught me has changed the way I view water filtration, and my Sawyer Squeeze water filter, forever. Estamos aquí para compartir. We are here to share. Clean water is a human right. 🇭🇳
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How to clean and maintain your Sawyer Squeeze water filter:
1) Use your Sawyer Squeeze to filter clean water into a water bottle or bucket.
2) Using the syringe provided with your filter, back-flush your water filter by driving water backwards through the filter. Repeat until the water comes out clean and clear.
3) Firmly tap your water filter against your palm several times.
4) Back-flush your filter again until the water, once again, comes out clean and clear.
Do this as frequently as possible and your Sawyer Squeeze can last you a lifetime!
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So grateful and thankful for this video. 1000s of lives will be saved from this! Miranda, I’m so proud of this!!
And her title didn’t make it seem like Sawyer is bad! Imagine that.
Sawyer is "The Truth."
Blessings to all who bring these basic essentials to humanity.
Bayard Rustin said, "To be afraid is to act is if the truth were not true."
Sawyer ministry, "..do not be not afraid."
@Dan Becker
your Sawyer video also highlighted how you learned The Truth with Sawyer Ministry.
Welcome the 'prodigal son' when he turns around.
Dan Becker moment
Your Sawyer video was also incredible Dan
Miranda, Rainer, Kyle, Chelsea and Andrew - very special pollitos! This brings back such warm memories of adventuring together. And what great timing- I’m on my way back to Honduras this Thursday, and I can’t wait to share this with WWB Team Honduras and as many Water Women as we can find! You entered so beautifully and humbly into the world of our Water Women. A heartful THANKS to and for all of you. And Miranda - thanks especially for lending your voice and your whole self to Water Women - that makes you one of us! We love you all!
Thank you for all you do, Sister Larraine!
Thank you for all you do!!! You are an inspiration!!
Gracias por todo, Hermana Larraine, y gracias Miranda (y su equipo) por compartir esta historia. I already own a Sawyer squeeze, so instead of buying another, I just went and donated directly, and encourage everyone who can to do the same. El amor salvará al mundo!
Please tell us more about the death mangoes 😂
Sister Lorraine may the LORD continue to bless you and the Water Women as you continue HIS WORK
I went out and bought a Sawyer after I heard them on The Outdoor Evolution podcast. They mentioned how they'd donated filters to Canadian First Nations reserves that had boil water advisories for over 20 years. The Canadian government keeps promising they'll get treatment plants built (or fix the broken ones) and they just never get around to it. So Sawyer stepped up and gave them filters.
Many thanks to Sawyer for everything they do around the world, and even right here in North America, to give people clean water to drink. And for all of us backpackers who have the privilege to buy them, so we also have clean water while we're out on trail.
Thank you, Miranda and crew, ❤ for showing us this. And for showing us just how many times we should be backflushing our filters! 😲
Two SASR (Australian Special Forces) and a handful of UNHCR workers I'm friends with all use the Sawyer Squeeze or the Katadyn Vario, and they advise against every other water filter brand out there - That should tell you all you need to know about Sawyer and Katadyn and their 'competition' (if you can even call them that).
Our First Nations communities are so often forgotten and I’m so glad to know that they are being seen and heard by Sawyer 💛
@@Funkteon I also use a Versa Hydroblu. Haven't got sick ever. It's quite good.
That's great to hear. The Canadian government's lack of response to giving our first nation clean drinking water is inexcusable. I have a larger capacity filter for our family's backpacking but I will buy a Sawyer as backup for our day hikes.
Not strictly a Canadian problem. Ask the people in Flint, Michgan.
When you went into Maria's home to do the GIS survey - I kinda lost it. When she went in to tearfully say goodbye to all the people in her home and she made a point to hug the man behind the camera ; . ; that would be so overwhelming to have so many people in your home, asking you questions and filming you, she was so gracious and kind and open. Truly remarkable.
I'm not crying, you're crying! No, wait, we're BOTH crying! This touches my public health heart in so many ways. I especially love that, while of course Sawyer plays a critical role in this and should be recognized (will be ordering them for my home emergency kit and bugout bag STAT) you kept the focus on the Honduran woman without whom the filters would just be so much plastic trash. Too many times corporations and organization parachute in like great white saviors and fail to make the connections needed to make their donations and programs meaningful and successful--so again, Kudos to Sawyer, BUT yes, Miranda, you nailed it, it is the women who take on the responsibility for filtering water not just for their own but for other households and for training other water women that actually make the program work. Thank you for recognizing and highlighting that. Going to go sob in a corner now...
That comment about feeling gratitude each time we drink water was powerful.
I was deciding on my first backpacking water filter a few months ago. I seen a similar video from another UA-camr Dan Becker in Africa. Bought a Sawyer squeeze the next day. We definitely take clean water for granted here in the USA. We literally poop in purified water. I try and remember that every time I’m having a bad day.
Sawyers PR team is doing a great job sharing the work they do. Not a knock at all, loved watching this video and Dan Beckers.
When I visit my family in Brasil, those office water dispensers are in almost every home. Never thought about buying Sawyer filters so they don't need to keep buying water. Will definitely be bringing a bunch in my luggage next trip.
Same here. I have family in Mexico who drinks the tap water because they can’t afford the filtered water. I need to figure out how I can make a bucket for em like this so they can filter their own
Great video. My big takeaways are, water is a human right and being able to buy a new filter when I don't take care of the old one is a privilege. The visual for the impact of the cleaning process was fantastic. It's easy to say "clean your filter" but seeing the process combined with the proof of how long the filter can last if you just take care of it was fantastic.
100% agreed! Knowing we can make it last a decade was a game-changer. Further proof of what Sawyer is doing is life-changing!
As a honduran, I want to thank firstly sister Larraine for helping underprivileged people in my country. Secondly to SAWYER, for providing the means to improve people’s lives here, and lastly to you Miranda, for pointing me in a direction (previously unknown to me) in which I can also help. I am an REI member, and on my next trip to the USA, I’ll make sure to buy some filters to try and replicate sister’s Larraine work.
I'm 29. I've been on UA-cam almost every day since around 2007. This is one the most uplifting videos I have ever watched. Thank you Miranda & Co!
Thank You Miranda, Loved this segment, it's not just about women helping other women; it's all about people helping other people to the basic human right of clean drinking water! We are in the process of selecting a water filter for backpacking, Sawyer's work in these Latin American countries (and elsewhere) just sold us on Sawyer filters.
I love that tip about banging the filter on your palm. It makes a huge difference. I have a relatively new filter that I have taken on a handful of trips. I actually used it this morning on a slightly longer day hike and hadn't cleaned it yet after getting home. The water I filtered on the trail this morning was from a nice clear pool of water in a creek. I back flushed it once and got a little grime, but it went clear relatively quick. I tapped a few times and back flushed again. It was worse than the first back flush. There was definitely gunk and grime in my filter from previous trips. This is a game changer. Thanks!
This made me mildly tear up, haha. This is awesome work, "Water with Blessings" and Sawyer! How wonderful to help provide clean water for people who need it. For all those people here saying this is just an ad and Sawyer is pushing its products, so what if it is? The product works great, and they're doing great things for many different communities. How can that be a bad thing? I like knowing that companies I support do good with their profits.
I volunteered with the water with blessing program twice! Such a powerful experience!!!!
The common thread that runs through all of this, from the water women to The development and use of the Sawyer filter to the production of your wonderful videos, is EDUCATION. None of this would be possible without education. Live to learn and teach.
As a Honduran; I thank you Miranda.
Also a Sawyer filter user, but in the PNW.
I love how UA-camrs are starting to help Sawyer spread their mission
I am a GIS technician and I loved hearing that it is being used in this way to help track the clean water initiative.
I wasn't expecting this video to make me so dang emotional.. Thank you so much for the video and life lesson Miranda.. Sawyer for life.
I have known Sr Loraine for 35-40 years since she taught my children here in Western Ky. We here have supported Sr ever since she started Warter Women. That has been our Lenten Alms giving project to help provide clean water to those in need.
Sr Lorine has been a tremendous person of service to those in need.
Thank you! 💛
@@larrainelauter1699 You are welcome, we are proud to support youhere in Hawesville and Lewisport.
This is an extraordinary video! I have been aware in the past that Sawyer does a lot to benefit others with clean water but I had no idea of the scale and this was just at one country. I was also astonished to see how long these filters last with proper care. I watch lots of long-course hikers and many will get several new ones along the AT or PCT or others. It's great to know the right way to care for them!
What a fantastic documentary about these water women of Honduras. Congratulations to the whole team, the nun and all the women who have cared for their community. I was just about to buy my filter and now, I feel incredibly privileged to be able to do that. Thank you, Sawyer!
Another great video about the Sawyer bucket program. I first saw the video put out by @danbecker. What I liked about yours, Miranda, was the in-depth look at the process at getting the filters to communities and then educating the water women. I am heading to a remote area of Nicaragua and want to bring this program to that community. I believe Sawyer and Amparo International are in communication. This is such an important humanitarian mission. I’ll be sharing the link of this video with the founder of Amparo. Thank you for sharing your experience.
ohhh wowww that's just sooo great!! I hope you'll come back with movies and memories for us all!
I never thought that what is gear to me is lifesaving for many. Thank you for this
An interesting design feature of the Sawyer is that you don't NEED to use the syringe to back flush. If you use a water bottle with a sports cap (like the Smart Water, for example), it will fit into the backflush spot and you can squeeze it to back flush your water. Obviously you'll want to not only use clean water, but a bottle that has only held filtered water so you don't accidentally cross contaminate your filter. I love my Sawyer filter and seeing this, I love it even more.
I realize that this is all a sacrifice to the gods of algorithm with the title of the video being least informative and most marketing-like, but I wish it could still convey a bit more what the video is about. 95% of the reason I clicked on it was suspiciously long duration (knowing Miranda videos), and I'd be sad if I had missed it only because of the title that has 'BUY' in it and not a clue as to what an important and pivotal initiative it is REALLY about.
All that being said, a great video and tremendous work that they are doing and you guys did to highlight it, spreading awareness.
Cheerios
Worth the wait! :) Hope you guys are enjoying your new adventures and this new chapter of Miranda in the- sorry! Miranda goes outside! ❤🎉
The drone footage of all the water women getting off the bus got me choked up
Hey Miranda Met you at trail days Said I knew you from youtube but forgot your name.Well I dont think I will ever forget your name after watching this video.This really blew me away, not what I was expecting.You've brought awesome to a whole other level
I cried so much... I can't even explain why. I'm really grateful for the effort put into this video and for the information on back flushing our water filters to extend their lives. Thank you!!
Bravo! Thanks for promoting the concept of clean water in poorer countries. I have been involved in promoting water projects through Church World Service. In 2006 and again in 2007 we got to visit water projects throughout Kenya and also in Uganda. It was amazing how a simple well or other water project which provides clean water can totally transform a community. There are the obvious health benefits, but also it frees people in many ways, especially the women and girls. They have the responsibility of getting water and can end up walking miles every day to fetch water. With a local clean water supply, much time is freed up for other activities and girls get to stay in school longer. God bless you for doing this video.
I am a firm believer in Sawyer. This is a great video. Too many have no idea how lucky we are to have clean, fresh and safe water. Very touching celebration. You always have to watch out when visiting these areas because too often end up leaving all you stuff behind, including your heart for them, because there is such a need. Awesome that the daughters of one of the ladies have received a good education too. Miranda is so tender hearted. Literally this is saving people's lives. Sawyer should be proud of their efforts.
This might well be the most important video you've made yet. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you so much for not only sharing about this, but for the opportunity to team up and sponsor Water Women! Our first donation has been sent and I can't wait to continue helping these women, these communities, this mission!
Thank you!
I don't usually leave comments on videos, but I just had to for this one... This video literally made me cry - yall are amazing! Beautiful video! ❤
SISTER LARRAINE!!!! I went to honduras with her and the friars for mission work!!!! OHH I'm so glad you got to work and meet her!!!! OMG MIRANDA!!!!
Water is life. Women are more in touch with water because we create life. So water women have a sacred duty. They help many people. It was a wonderful video to see water women of other cultures! Thanks for this. Sharing your vid with my friends!
I will never look at my Sawyer water filter the same again! Thanks for such an awesome video!
Wow, you have just gone from my favourite backpacking/trail youtuber to my favourite caring human being. I wasn't expecting that, damn...
Miranda what a wonderful experience… I am going to buy one and make it last for years..
I went with my son to Colombia which was a wonderful experience to me.😍 Not knowing any Spanish at all.
I drive a school bus so have my summers free IF you ever want to bring an adventurous women along..
Enjoy your journey in life and keep spreading your sunshine 🥰
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I just watched your entire video and I had tears in my eyes. I own a Sawyer Water Filter but haven’t used it “for real” yet. I mainly got it for emergencies. However, I’m recovering from an ankle replacement surgery and I love to hike so I’m going to use it on the trail.
But that’s not the most amazing thing. Just this morning a group from Knoxville, TN (where I live) left on a mission trip to Honduras. They will be work with those struggling with addiction in communities and places of incarceration. I would have been on that trip except for my surgery.
I can’t wait to tell them about the “Water Women” and share your video.
Thank you for posting this and I’m forever a fan of “Sawyer”!!
“May you be richly blessed for your care and compassion. May you feel God’s love in return like the Water Women felt as they received the filters!! In Jesus’s Holy name, Amen.”
🙌🙌🙌🙌🙏🙏🙏✝️
Loved this! I am a Junior high teacher and I can’t wait to show this video to my students about how clean water is accessed around the world!
I have known for many many years what Sawyer filters do to help people out. This is one of the reasons why I buy this filter and the other reason is they are awesome. The only reason I have to replace my filters are in an usual cold spell came in and I wake up in the morning and everything is frozen solid, including my filter, which is never a good thing. I guess that’s one thing that people from Honduras don’t have to worry about.
My husband and I did a Safe Water Sabbatical. I did a small fundraiser to buy 15 bucket filters and gave them to families and villages as we traveled. Your video was absolutely fantastic! It motivates me as a hiker to again give back. I was not a hiker at the time but I am now and just this weekend realized how blessed we are to filter stream water and what a privilege it is to have these filters. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
This video is, by far, my favorite Miranda video of all time. Thank you for allowing us to be little pollitos on the wall with you.
My go-to filter. It's just way too good to not use. Small size, light weight, ridiculous lifespan (100,000 gallons!), low cost, they're just awesome. My wife and I used ours (with Cnoc bags) for drinking water while staying in Ecuador for 6 months and it never let us down. Plus their clean water mission is AMAZING! Their permethrin fabric treatment is also pretty nice when visiting countries where things like malaria are a concern.
Two SASR (Australian Special Forces) and a handful of UNHCR workers I'm friends with all use the Sawyer Squeeze or the Katadyn Vario, and they advise against every other water filter brand out there - That should tell you all you need to know about Sawyer and Katadyn and their 'competition' (if you can even call them that).
I really love my Sawyer squeeze. Although now I’m wondering if I do backflush it enough. 🤔 Thanks for the helpful tips!
Always glad to support products that have a positive impact.
Way to make me tear up. One of your best yet. It's always amazing how the simple things we take for granted can have such huge impacts in other places. Thanks for reminding us of our shared humanity.
This is the best video y'all have ever done! It is definitely a privilege to have clean drinking water here in the US- something not a lot of people think about. Please do more of these videos! Who's cutting onions?... 💙
Great video. I hiked in La Tigra National Park back in 1999 when our family our family volunteered to build housing with Church World Service. I am also a hydrologist and I took a simple water filter which screwed on as a cap for a water bottle. The group thought I was crazy, but I wanted to test my filter in less than pristine conditions (not like our Colorado mountain streams). I drank from taps, from rivers, from wells, while the rest of the group drank only bottled water. I was fine.
We were just in Tegucigalpa in August. I recognized the airport and some of the landscaping coming into the city. Our missions center had guard dogs that were set loose at night too. We spent a week there and provided a medical brigade at a church on the west mountain. A hawk watched our van enter the neighborhood each day we were there. A hawk is a gang member with a cell phone to protect the community. Because they recognized our van and the help we were bringing we were waved on in. I’m sure when the van you were in entered a neighborhood you got the same treatment because of the work the women are doing to bring clean water to the people, you probably got a pass and may never have known it. What a joy to see your video and know there are others making a huge difference in Honduras.
I'm one minute in and already blown away. Welp i guess i'll be late for work because i'm watching this for next 36 minutes
I thought I was gonna watch a gear video. Not an emotional story about how clean drinking water changed so many lives 🥹 beautiful.
Backflushed my Sawyer Mini today, def heading back down to the kitchen to give it a good tap now
Thank you, Sawyer, for being a staple in water purification...
Wow this was an awesome video. Loved it. Coming from a Native American reservation where water is still an issue. It is nice to see the great strides in water systems. Thanks for sharing. Viva water women!!
I had no idea Sawyer was doing such amazing humanitarian work! Thanks for making this incredible video!
What an empowering group of people. As a backpacker it’s wonderful that sawyer is educating people about how really important clean water is. Sawyer is amazing!!!❤ (Just me tearing up as I watched this video) Truly amazing!!!!❤❤❤
This is why I've always and will always use Sawyer filters
I love women! Their strength and resilience can and does change the world! ❤
Once I was just happy to own a Sawyer water filter; now I am proud to own one! Thank you, Miranda and Crew! You did a great thing, both being there to help, and bringing this information to us, to show the world what a great work we can all be involved in! God bless you all!
Thank you Miranda, you really opened my eyes to the great need of clean drinking water in the world. Thanks to Sawyer and to you and to your team. You are a light in the world❤
wow. at times I've given harsh feedback on your channel... but this was a really good, informative video.
The people of Acapulco who were devastated by hurricane Otis could sure use these filters. Clean water is what so many are asking for right now.
“There aren’t any children here. Oh wait, Miranda’s here!” 😂
This is incredible work. ❤️
Watching this as I get ready to go for a hike WITH my filter!
I love seeing the different cultures, different experiences and just the joy of being able to have clean water and share that with their families.
It is amazing to see a huge company do these things. To help in a world that is full of ugliness, especially when so many large corporations are only out for money and greed. It is is awesome to see this!
Thank you for going and exploring and showing more of the world! These women are amazing and what they are doing.
Also.. THANK YOU FOR PETTING THE KITTY! haha. I would have been very sad of you did not
I hope you continue to make videos like this! Absolutely amazing and I've had this filter for a few years but never appreciated it. I'm so thankful you were able to make this trip and educate all of us!❤
Awesome organization!! Thanks for the letting us hear about it.
Just started watching and that's an amazing trip and such a good cause!
This is so fascinating! Thank you for sharing!
This was just beautiful. Thank you.
WOW! This was a really cool journey. Thank you, Miranda et al for sharing this! I watch your content anyway, but this was such a great detour from your regular stuff. The storytelling was great. High quality. 10/10 would watch more of this kind of stuff. Way to go!
I already own 2 Sawyer Squeeze filters. I love the work they do around the world. That was one of the reasons I purchased them. Love hearing the stories.
Had no idea y'all were gonna make me cry when I first clicked on this ❤️
Way cool! Thanks for introducing us! The exponential impact the water women and Sawyer Foundation are having on Honduras alone is inspiring.
what a beautiful video. proud of the work y’all are doing with this.
So inspiring and fabulous! Thank you to everyone, Miranda, for doing this, sharing your good work and reminding us of how fortunate we are. ❤️🥾🥾🌻
You guys are doing such amazing work. So glad to you all doing this.
Thanks for highlighting this work Sawyer is doing.
Amazing video! My ❤ is full.
Such an excellent video Miranda. Thanks for sharing! What an incredible watch.
Thank you for shining a light on amazing work. Inspirational
Such a great story! Thanks Miranda!!
Epic documentary! Inspired beyond words! Thank you, Sawyer, Miranda, Kyle & Crew for making this happen for everyone to know, see, benefit and applaud!! KUDOS!
Thank you so much for doing this! This so great and educational.
Not me tearing up the whole time! An amazing video ya’ll. Thank you for sharing!
This is by far my favourite video from you. Great content!
Love your video's so much. They always make me smile and make me go out on hikes.
Miranda: "this dog is more adventurous then I'll ever be".
Not true. You are super adventurous Miranda. Never stop being awesome and wearing cool hats.
I OWN TWO SAWYER WATER FILTERS. HAVE NOT USED THEM YET. BUT I AM PREPARED IF AND WHEN I NEED THEM.
This is the best video you guys have ever done! Awesome job!! It's amazing what Sawyer is doing to help everyone get clean water. I'll always be buying their filters from now on!
What a wonderful video! Thank you for sharing, Miranda!
Absolutely beautiful story! So glad to see a company doing so much for the needy!!
Touching and inspirational Miranda. Fantastic photography, editing and story telling. You all are on to a bigger meaning for the adventure that awaits all of us no matter the trail.
I've been a user of Sawyer filters for many years, and seeing the work they do is just incredible, thanks for sharing this amazing story 👍🙂
I am so happy that you had this experience. ❤
I'm definitely going to start backlashing my filter more often after watching this! Excellent work.
What an impactful video! Thank you for sharing this amazing story.
What an awesome experience. I love what sawyer is doing. Thank you so much for sharing your journey, Miranda. Bringing awareness on how important it is to have clean water. So many take water for granted and don't realize how important water is for our survival.
This is amazing. Great way to bring awareness to this where many of us, had no idea about this program and the amazing work that Sawyer does.
I’m so proud to support and follow content like this 👏 Thank you for all you and your team did to share this cause with us. I’m now supporting and following along with WWB and will proudly share about the good work Sawyer is doing for our communities in need.
Beautiful video. Thank you for doing this and bringing it to us. ❤️