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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.
MinnesotaMark
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2025
Great Filter, good overall flow as long is it is back flushed regularly. I used to use a sawyer but now only use this filter.
Carsten Kraus
Reviewed in Germany on February 13, 2025
Super. Während man bei Sawyer ständig mit Adapter hantiert ist der einfach durchdacht.
RHeck
Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2024
Saved $50 when I needed to replace the filter in my platypus gravity setup. More versatile to, as it threads onto bottles if needed.
Heather P.
Reviewed in Canada on September 18, 2023
I have been using this style of water filter for about 5 years now. Small, light weight and easy to use (buy the collapsible water bags) so it is a great product for back country camping.
VanCity604
Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2022
I have been using this filter with the CNOC bags for years now, almost a decade. And love it!This filter fits onto a smart water bottle too.It’s filters quickly. Gravity flow works best, although I have squeezed my CNOC bag to make it go faster.I have had many different filter systems when hiking, camping, backcountry etc. and I always come back to this one.I would recommend this, as I have bought a few of these through the years.
woodworker
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021
I make a few trips a year back country camping with the same group of friends, and usually trade off the chore of pumping water. A typical trip involves setting up camp in one spot for several days and doing day hikes. It happened all too often that we ended up down at the stream at night with flashlights getting some water bottles filled, because we kept putting off the task. This last trip I was the champ (actually the credit goes to the HydroBlu filter); I had two three liter bladders hooked up, an orange one and a blue one, and there was always a full bag of drinking water ready for use. I looked at making up an arrangement of bags, hoses and filter, but ended up just screwing a bag to each end of the filter and hanging it from a tree branch with a carabiner. It was a simple arrangement and worked well for our situation.https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RSF2WT6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I designated the orange one "dirty", so it was a quick fill from the stream, hang it up and go about my business, half an hour later (it varied from ten minutes to over an hour and time to back-flush) we had three liters of drinking water. I got in the habit of distributing the good water and hanging up a fresh batch of stream water, we always had plenty of water to drink and there was no waiting for water, so I quit watching how long it took. By the end of the third day it was time to back-flush it by lifting the clean water over the filter and giving that bag a squeeze for five seconds, then right side up and it was good as new. Now all my buddies want the same setup, it's so easy and so good. I would have saved money by buying the kit with the two bags included, in retrospect I wish I had gotten that just because of the fittings included, but I do prefer these cnoc reservoirs because they're so easy to fill.This packs up into a compact bundle that was smaller than the pumps we used to use. No moving parts and the energy required to filter water is provided by Mr. Gravity! When I got home I carefully followed instructions for back-flushing the filter and running vinegar through it and let it sit out and dry for a week before storing. Hopefully this will last a long time, it's supposed to be good for 100,000 liters of water. I'd estimate it's filtered 50 liters so far, so it's got a long way to go. I did a lot of homework before getting this, I looked at the Platypus gravity system, the Sawyer Squeeze and several others, sent to a bunch of outdoor product websites and blogs, YouTube, etc. but based on price, ease of use and ease of maintenance, I decided the HydroBlu is the one to get. Now that I've used it I feel that even more strongly.
Rob
Reviewed in Australia on March 20, 2020
Looks OKCan’t say I have tested it yet, still waiting for the zombies 🧟♀️
Honestly
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2020
Better flow rate than my sawyer mini, tastes good too
Ricardo De Ycaza
Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2017
I didn't see many reviews by backpackers, so Let me see if I can help a bit.Used the sawyer mini for a couple of weeks, really did hate the flow rate. So went back to the sawyer squeeze.I ate up the extra oz, in benefit of a better flow rate. Which I love. But then I saw a couple of thru hikers reviewing this.So I ordered it, opened it, weight it dry and was 1.4 oz, and 1.8 wet (shaking all the water I could.)Then I did a test and tried to filter tab water to a 1.25 lt Aquafina water bottle.( I don't squeeze my bags, just gravity) tested them with evernew bags, The squeeze did it in 2 minutes 23 seconds, while this clocked at 2 min, 15 seconds, so it is a faster filter and lighter.Yes this has a shorter life span than either sawyer, but really???? Are you really going to filter even that much?The threads also work perfectly with platypuss bags. No leakage whatsoever vs any sawyer which will leak on platys.So far so good, the taste is a little hosey, which I like though I think by this weekend the hosey flavor should be gone.the back flushing is a little simpler, just use any clean water bottle with clean water and put it against the clean side, it will sort of create a seal with a rubberized part it has on the fron, and squeeze some water into that for a couple of times.. Works really well.It is slightly larger and bulkier than the mini.I will continue to use it almost every weekend I go backpacking. But will keep my squeeze just in case I have to back to it.Update: the hosey smell went away after a couple of litters.
MrLucky
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2017
This is perfect for my camping needs. Our trailer only has a 9 gallon fresh water tank (2 showers & it's empty), but we always camp near water. I have a Sawyer Mini, but I needed a gravity feed for larger volumes. I received this today and tested the flow, 4 gallons in 35 minutes, which is way adequate for our needs. It takes a 5/8" drill bit for the bucket (if you buy the kit). They just back flushed our municipal water lines and the water was very murky, the output was crystal clear. If I'd have seen this first, I wouldn't have bought the Sawyer. This filters at .1 microns (same as the Sawyer), and it could double-duty for potable water, coffee and tea.Addendum: Just had it out on a 3 day camp out and it worked flawlessly. I was actually able to supply another camper with potable water due to it's capability, so we're totally pleased with it. The river water tasted awesome.And a few years later: We have a bigger trailer now and I'm on my 2nd filter. I ordered a third one for backup. It takes about 1 1/2 hours now to filter 6 gallons of water, but it's passive and stays at the campsite, so the time is acceptable. With politics the way they are, inflation, the recession, shortages at the grocery store, the way America is declining under this administration, I'm making sure we'll have safe drinking water if all else fails...
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