If you have read our blogs from July until December 2016, then you followed our journey through eight different countries in South East Asia. In this hot and humid climate, your body needs plenty of water to replenish all the sweat. Two adult men like us need at least 2,5 liters of water per day. Some of that water demand gets covered by fruit juices and smoothies, which are so delicious, and “occasionally” by beer. But most of the daily fluid intake should be clean water. No need for high content of minerals, as we already get those from food. We need plain H2O.
Even before we left for our journey, I was determined to cut plastic bottle consumption to the minimum. Minimising your waste products is the least you can do whilst travelling. As a present from my colleagues at work I got several filters. The “Filter pen”, which is no longer commercially available, but somewhat similar to Lifestraw, and a “Lifesaver” bottle. Next to that, I also brought a self-made prototype of Flo-Bro One (I didn’t know it would be called that way back then).