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Lifesaver Systems, the guys that brought you the water filter in a bottle have adapted the system and added a few tweaks that make filling, filtering, drinking and carrying water a fairly seamless operation. The new device is called the HydroCarry. It’s premise is that you can fill the all-in-one bladder\/pouch with water from any source and be drinking in a few seconds without even taking the system off your body armor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carrier is made from 1000D Cordura that’s been coated to to hold water, so there’s no internal bladder. The HyrdoCarrier snaps to your PALS webbing on your back and the small handpump that charges the system can ride up front.\u00a0 Other nice touches include patented technology that keeps water in the drinking tube cool, a newly designed bite valve with a built-in mister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus- Since you’re filling the bladder with nasty water that’s filtered as you drink, you don’t even have to clean the bladder. Watch the inventor, Michael Pritchard, explain the system in a couple of vids below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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