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For years, I have been using the Katadyn water bottle for my filtration needs while I am on the trail and on my MSR pump filter around the camp and this has replaced both of them. The Katadyn bottle was nice, but had only ok flow so you find yourself squeezing and sucking like crazy, not so with the Sawyer. You can use the included pouch or any bottle with a 2 liter screw top, such as a smart water bottle(get the one with the sports top and use the top to replace the one that came with the Sawyer) and the flow is AWESOME! You squeeze and it comes gushing out the other side. Bye bye Katadyn(especially with how expensive the replacement cartridges are) Now for filtering at camp. Before, I either pumped and pumped and pumped some more to get enough water or I would use iodine tablets. Sawyer again saves the day. With the addition of a $2 tornado tube and a couple of collapsible water bottles(I recommend Evernew bottles, Platypus work but the pitch of the threads seem to be a bit off) you can make a simple gravity system that works great. Just fill one bottle with "dirty" unfiltered water(put a couple of holes to put rope to hang everything in the welded section. No holes where the water goes), put your tornado tube on the "out" side of the filter, put your empty collapsed "clean" bottle into the other end of the tornado tube and then put the side of the filter away from the arrow on the "dirty" water bottle. turn it upside down and hang it from a tree and go do other stuff. when you come back, everything is filtered. No more pumping for me. I still bring tablets or auqamira drops as an emergency backup, but haven't needed them yet. I attached a couple of pics of the setup I used on a 9 day backpacking trip I just got back from in case my description is hard to understand. Any questions, let me know or do a search for Sawyer Squeeze mods on youtube.