It often very hard to work out which filtration of purification product you should choose.  This is intended to help you the consumer to understand the difference between the AquaSafeStraw and the Clean Sip.

Clean Sip, www.cleansip.com or www.cleansip2000.com  sell a portable electrostatic and filtration al based water filtration and purification devices.

The AquaSafeStraw, www.aquasafestraw.com  that has been specifically designed for travelling, hiking and disaster situations.  The only product that is safe for all to use, irrespective of health conditions, known and unknown, due to its chemical free filtration system.

For the purpose of comparison, we are looking at AquaSafeStraw against Clean Sip. 

The Clean Sip product uses three components to filter the water.  The first and last bits are a micro filter, the second being a copper and zinc media that ionically changes molecules into insoluble salts.  This process is called Electro Chemical Oxidation Reduction.  There is no information on the effectiveness of this device.  It works like a battery where the water is the conductor. Once the water is present the electrical charges passes through the water killing any bacteria and viruses.   The third part of the filer is an activated charcoal filter.  There is no indication when the Electro Chemical Oxidation Reduction has fully discharged, like a battery.

The AquaSafeStraw uses a polyethylene membrane that filters down to 0.2 micron, exceeding the US CDC recommendation of 1 micron to effectively remove Giardia and Cryptosporidium. The AquaSafeStraw removes 99.9999% of bacteria

Clean Sip and the AquaSafeStraw are very simple, easy and self evident products to use.
Clean Sip keeps passing water once the electro Chemical Oxidation has fully discharged allowing bacteria, Giardia and Cryptosporidium to easily pass through the straw.
The AquaSafeStraw uses a membrane technology that filter out all (99.9999%) bacteria, Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Water WILL NOT pass through the AquaSafeStraw when no longer effective.

The AquaSafeStraw and Clean Sip are immediately ready to use.

Clean Sip does not state the effectiveness of removal of bacteria, Giardia or Cryptosporidium.  Are you willing to take a chance?

The AquaSafeStraw filters out all Bacteria as well as Cryptosporidium and Giardia above to 0.2 microns exceeding the America’s Centre of Disease Control and prevention (www.cdc.gov) recommendation of filters to a minimum of 1 micron.  The AquaSafeStraw exceed this by a factor of 5.   Under strict international standard laboratory testing to EPA and CDC levels of testing, the AquaSafeStraw removed 99.9999% of bacteria, Giardia and Cryptosporidium.

AquaSafeCorp is about to release two new products, AquaSafeBottle and  AquaSafeStraw+, that filters down to 0.01 micron below the size of viruses.   

Both the Clean Sip and AquaSafeStraw have past extensive testing to verify their specification when the product is in prime condition. 

The two major differences between the products;

1.   AquaSafeStraw stops working once the filter is congested. Water will still flow through Clean Sip when the Electro Chemical Oxidation Reduction process is in-effective to remove bacteria, what are you drinking?
 

2.   Clean Sip does not provide any stated guarantees for the removal of bacteria whereas AquaSafeStraw guarantees removes 99.99999%.

Clean Sip is readily available to the public for single unit purchase, of $12.95 for 910 litres equating to 1.4 cents per litre.  AquaSafeStraw cost $34.95 for 500 litres (132 gallons) per unit working out to be 7 cents a litre or 26.5 cents per gallon. 

AquaSafeStraw is light weight (24g), 21cm long unit, 1.8cm diameter. The product can fit in your pocket.  The size Clean Sip product is not specified on there web site though it looks like to be similiar in size to the AquaSafeStraw.

How does AquaSafeStraw be technologically advanced and be so price competitive? 

AquaSafeCorp have taken state of the art materials and technologies, along with advanced manufacturing techniques (patented) to produce a cost effective advanced product.

Product Characteristics

CleanSip 

AquaSafeStraw

Price (RRP)

$ 12.95 US

$44.95 US

Capacity Volume of water

910 Litres/  200 gallon

500 litres /132 gallon

Filtration levels

not specified

0.2 micron

Exceeds CDC recommendations

undetermined

Yes

Approved by relevant authorities

undetermined

Yes

Chemicals

Yes

No

Satisfies US Army recommendation for water filtration

undetermined

Yes

Ease of Use

Very Easy

Very Easy

Reputable manufacturing standards

Yes

Yes

Longevity

No

Yes

Stop working once filtration stops working

No

Yes

Portability/size

not specified

21 cm long x 1.8 cm diameter
24 grams