$20 Solution to Eliminate Plastic Water Bottles (Bike Touring India)
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Here is what we talk about:
0:00 Finding plastic water bottles across India
1:40 Invitation to Cycling With summit
2:50 Recommendation of the Sawyer Mini
3:26 How long does it take to fill a bottle of water with a filter?
4:40 Q&A about using a water filter while bike touring
6:50 How to say water in Malayalam
Annalisa van den Bergh and Erik Douds (me) completed a 1,000KM self-supported bicycle tour of Southern India to start 2020. As visual storytellers, we document the people we meet along the way in a magazine and film series called Miles of Portraits.
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Three weeks into the south India bike tour, we discover ourselves riding past burning piles of plastic water bottles. Many foreigners who visited the country told us to buy 1L bottles of water for about 20 rupees each for our entire trip. The amount of waste generated would quickly add up as we each use 6-10 bottles per day to stay hydrated. Is there a better solution?
The Sawyer mini weighing 2oz and taking up no space fits on to standard threaded bottles (28mm). We carried two in India.
Products we used to replace plastic water bottles:
1. Sawyer Mini ($20): bit.ly/sawyer-mini
2. Ortlieb 2L water bag: bit.ly/ortlieb2L
If you assume we buy 6 water bottles for $.20 cents each, the Sawyer Mini pays for itself in 16 days of traveling. You can also take personal responsibility for reducing the amount of burning piles of plastic water bottles alongside the road.
Sawyer International is also committed to helping the millions of people impacted by natural disasters each year with clean water access. I hope one year to film one of their service trips, maybe in combination with Biolite (another Miles of Portraits sponsor and contributor to clean energy access). You all may not know that the first place I went after college was the border of South Sudan and Ethiopia to implement development of Gambella National Park with my background in mapping and environmental policy.
People riding their bikes around the world, their nation, or town, is there a water filter system you love to use? Let me know in the comments.
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Erik Douds is an adventure filmmaker who has biked 10,000+ miles with teammate Annalisa van den Bergh while overcoming the obstacles of type 1 diabetes. Their work has been featured on the cover of Adventure Cyclist Magazine (100,000+ distribution), used for print ads inside Outside Magazine (2.8M readers), and he is a global ambassador for Beyond Type 1 (1M+ followers).
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How many bottles do you think we ended up eliminating? Should we do a giveaway for best guess??
They also fit the Smart water bottles you find in the store, which are a little bigger and nearly indestructible! Sawyer also makes a gravity version that you can hang up from a tree and let gravity do all the work for you. Best used overnight!
@ErikDouds
3 жыл бұрын
I know hikers LOOOOOOVE the smart water bottles. We used the gravity fed version while hiking in British Columbia and it is solid for a group.
Glad to see you doing videos on clean water accessibility. Always thought it was a huge issue that doesn't get nearly the press it deserves. Seems like an age since you had that charity fundraiser in honor of your sister. Not that I'm criticizing... just getting old. Keep up the awesome work!
Plastic is the problem..and we need to address that..definitely it’s a great product and we need more awareness of plastic pollution..
@ErikDouds
3 жыл бұрын
100% Agree. I'm looking to bring more awareness to the issue and encourage all of us to take individual steps to reduce single-use waste. Really enjoyed seeing the price savings and estimated how many plastic bottles were avoided
Great video love from karnataka (coorg)💓
There is a school in Assam where plastic bottles are the children school fees. I really like their concept. The children pay their admission and school fees not by money but by paying plastic bottles. Kudos Assam ✌👍
I've found the timing between pump filters and Sawyers has to also include the time filling the Sawyer pouch. I can put a pump tube in water in one second, versus trying to fill a Sawyer/platypus which can also take a few minutes before getting to the filter squeezing. This is a bigger impact getting water from a small stream versus a running spigot though.
@ErikDouds
3 жыл бұрын
Valid 🙌I forget exactly what we used in Alaska but it took foreverrrrrrr. What system do you like using on your bike trips? The problem I have with a lot of pump systems is they malfunction semi-frequently. Gravity fed systems are definitely my favorite but not space efficient.
@xjdndndmsvsvr
3 жыл бұрын
@@ErikDouds I had used a MSR/Sweetwater Guardian pump for many years. The cartridge failed almost instantly when it got full once, but a new filter fixed that for the next trip. I was carrying backup aquamira also. I more recently got the Sawyer mini, but it's pretty slow so I may go for the larger size when this one needs replacing.
Congrats on 5k
@ErikDouds
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 😃 Glad you have been such a supportive fan
video keren yang harus ditonton :D :))