LifeStraw Pouch

A LifeStraw is only useful if it is on you when you find the water. Loose in a pack it collects grit in the mouthpiece and ends up at the bottom under everything else. This pouch is cut to hold two LifeStraws upright and keeps them clean, so the filter you drink through has not been rolling around in the dirt of a cargo drawer.

Hand-sewn from 1000D Cordura and cut close to the straw so the filters do not rattle inside. It mounts two ways: MOLLE webbing on the back weaves onto a PALS grid — a seat organizer, a MOLLE panel, a pack — for a permanent flat mount, or use the clip attachment when you want it on a belt loop or a shoulder strap and want it off again in a second. Two straws in one pouch means the second person on the hike is not sharing yours.

What to know before you buy

Pouch only. The filters are sold separately. It is cut for the standard LifeStraw personal filter — the larger bottle and gravity versions are a different shape.

Pairs with

• 1 in HK Clip Hook with Velcro — another clip point for hanging the pouch off a strap.