Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

To preface this: I love CamelBak eddy bottles. I've purchased probably around eight 1L CamelBak eddy bottles over the past five years, and have used them every single day. They come with me everywhere (kayaking, hiking, horseback riding, napping, work, class, etc.) and they've been pretty reliable-- not perfect, but definitely great. However, several years takes a toll on bottles when you use them so much. My old stash had grown warped, leaky, and moldy from the use and abuse, so I finally invested in two new bottles. I thought these were just like the Eddy bottles I've been buying for the past half decade... I was wrong. The "new" design is a joke. After washing, I tried using the bottle without a straw first. The sound of the air being pulled into the bottle to balance pressure straight-up sounds like a turkey mating call. And it's LOUD. It was heard across my house. Thank God I wasn't in public, or a wayward hunter might have taken me out to prep for Thanksgiving. The chance of me using this in the gym, work, or class is less than 0. So I tried putting the straw in. It's silent to drink from this way, thankfully... but an hour later when I came back to the bottle, I found a puddle surrounding it. Not from condensation, oh no. The cold water in the bottle had warmed up, increasing the pressure inside. And as the only way for fluid to leave the bottle is through the mouthpiece-- which is now connected to a straw, which is now sitting in water-- the pressure was balanced by forcing water out of the mouthpiece little by little over time. So now I have a nice puddle on my coffee table. When I tried to lift the valve to drink, I got an extra geyser all over the couch. And lastly, the valve on this one is terribly shaped. The last design worked perfectly!! It didn't need to be changed! The new design takes some tongue dexterity to operate decently at best-- and I don't want to have to make out with my water bottle to get some hydration, ya know? I'm honestly really disappointed. These used to be fantastic bottles, and an easy way to keep track of fluid intake. Now, at best, they're good hunting accessories, or a way to teach high-schoolers about thermodynamics. Not remotely acceptable for a simple water bottle though.