Steripen Classic 3 Review

This is a review of our Steripen Classic 3 ultraviolet water purifier. We bought this so we could safely drink local water, saving literally hundreds of plastic bottles if we had to buy water. Also we thought it would be a lot more convenient to have water available whenever we needed it.

We chose the Classic 3 because it runs on AA batteries that we can buy anywhere. We can treat 1 litre of water in about a minute.

The set of 4AA batteries seems to last about 4 to 6 weeks. At very high altitude we have had to warm the batteries up as they get so cold, then it has worked fine.

We have one wide mouthed Nalgene bottle that we use to treat the water, then we tip it into our narrow necked drinking bottle - this routine is ideal.

Overall we are really pleased with this Steripen, if it packs up we would be gutted!