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Our Journey

Following two catastrophic natural disasters in quick succession, the Tsunami (2004) Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans (2005), British inventor Michael Pritchard set out to create a portable water filtration device capable of providing a sustainable source of safe drinking water. After many attempts, Michael eventually created the first LifeSaver bottle in 2007. This was the world’s first portable water filter capable of removing the smallest known waterborne viruses.

LifeSaver soon established themselves as an effective solution to safe drinking water issues in the Humanitarian world. By 2010, LifeSaver had caught the attention of the British Army, who chose the LifeSaver bottle as their portable water filtration solution for personnel operating deeper in the field, beyond regular base supplies.

This great British product was selected by the Army after an extremely stringent technical and commercial assessment, the conclusion of which was that it was selected as the most efficient and cost effective way to produce safe drinking water.

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MINISTER OF DEFENCE, BURMA CAMP, GHANA

As LifeSaver’s involvement in the Humanitarian sector grew, LifeSaver began to work in partnership with Oxfam to develop a new product which would be even more suited to the needs of people in the wake of a natural disaster, or displaced communities. This partnership led to the creation of the LifeSaver Cube. Using the same ultrafiltration technology as the bottle, the Cube stores up to 5 litres of water and provides a family of 4, daily safe drinking water for a whole year. The Cube’s distinctive shape is specifically designed to be efficiently stacked for shipping as many as possible on to pallets in emergencies.

With a growing range of products designed to be portable, durable and capable of filtering thousands of litres of water with a single cartridge, LifeSaver water filters also attracted more varied audiences in the retail sector. Outdoor enthusiasts, campers, backpackers, travellers, overlanders, adventurers, explorers and preppers have all found a LifeSaver filter which perfectly suits their individual needs, often via a combination of our products.

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Hear the LifeSaver origin story in its founders’ own words:

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Our Mission

Our LifeSaver® water purifiers can make a huge difference to the lives of the 663 million people currently without access to safe drinking water. In an emergency LifeSaver water filtration technology helps keep people alive in the critical hours and days following a natural or human led disaster. Our water purifiers enhance aid efforts by providing people with the means to produce their own safe drinking water, at the point of use. LifeSaver water filtration revolutionises the provision of aid deployment through utilising a more cost effective, timely and sustainable solution – that is effective far beyond the initial deployment.

LifeSaver water purifiers also provide an effective long-term clean water solution, both for humanitarian staff to ensure they are always with clean drinking water in the field and for beneficiaries in need of a household water filtration solution.

A recent case study in Sierra Leone, West Africa saw LifeSaver work alongside DFID (UK Aid) and the Ministry of Health and Water to provide a community with a LifeSaver C2. Our large C2 units produce up to 2 million litres of clean water, which would provide a community of 100 people with clean drinking water for up to 18 years.

Most recently 2,300 of our LifeSaver Cubes have been sent to Indonesia to aid the relief effort following a spate of earthquakes and a catastrophic tsunami. You can read more about this on our News page here.

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Our Technology

Manufactured in the UK, LifeSaver® products are portable water purification devices that are pressurised with a built in hand pump. This air pressure forces water through the approximately 15 nanometre (0.015 micron) hollow fibre membrane pores of an ultra filtration cartridge and out through the exit nozzle, leaving microbiological contamination behind. LifeSaver purification technology essentially provides a physical barrier against viruses, bacteria and cysts. No chemicals or electrical power is required.

This, combined with our unique and patented ‘failsafe’ technology – which ensures that the product stops working when the filter needs to be changed, protecting the user – delivers a product range that is unmatched.

Our LifeSaver water filters meet an adaption of NSF Protocol 231 based on recommendations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at minimum. LifeSaver purifiers filter bacteria to a minimum of Log 6 (99.9999%), Viruses to a minimum of Log 4 (99.99%) and Cysts to a minimum of Log 4 (99.99%). See our test certifications here.

LifeSaver filtration technology will purify unreliable municipal water supplies, rainwater, water taken directly from lakes, rivers, ponds, and even muddy puddles, allowing you to make thousands of litres / gallons of clean safe water.

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How LIFESAVER works