Why Do We Exist?

Water Is The First Thing To Go. It Shouldn't Be The First Thing You Worry About.

We make emergency water filter straws for the families who'd rather be ready than lucky.

PureSipp emergency water filter straw

The Numbers Behind The Risk

Most People Think It Can't Happen To Them. Ask Asheville.

43 Million
Americans On Private Wells

Every well pump runs on electricity. No power means no pump, and no pump means no water. Source: USGS

53 Days
Without Safe Tap Water

That's how long Asheville, NC went after Hurricane Helene in 2024. Source: City of Asheville

100 lb
Of Water, 3-Day Minimum

What a family of four needs at a gallon per person per day. Source: Ready.gov

It Takes About Three Days To Find Out You Weren't Prepared.

The power goes out. Then the pump stops. Then you turn the tap and nothing comes. Your kid asks for a glass of water, and you don't have an answer.

By lunchtime the store shelves are empty. By dinner, everyone who waited is in the same spot you are.

And it doesn't take a hurricane. A flood or a broken main can poison city lines while the tap still runs, and the water looks fine. The families who get through it calmly aren't the lucky ones. They're the ones who had something in the drawer.

Nearly empty water aisle at a grocery store

Our Mission: No Family Should Ever Have To Choose Between Thirsty And Sick.

When you're desperate, a puddle, a creek, or a roadside ditch starts to look like an option. It isn't, not without a filter between that water and your child.

So we make a straw that stops what you can't see. At 0.01 micron, it removes 99.99% of bacteria and protozoa, including E. coli, Salmonella, cholera, Giardia, and Cryptosporidium. No batteries, no chemicals, no power. Just two ounces, small enough for a kid to carry their own.

One straw filters up to 1,800 gallons, about five years of drinking water for one person, and it never expires when stored dry. You put it in the drawer. You hope you never touch it. And you sleep better knowing it's there.

Child drinking from a creek through a PureSipp filter straw

Built For The Day The Water Stops, Not A Weekend Hike.

Most filter straws are trail gear, made for clear mountain streams and a sunny afternoon. We built ours for the opposite: muddy runoff, standing water, and the worst week your family may ever have.

That's why ours filters ten to twenty times finer than the 0.1 to 0.2 micron straws most brands sell. In a real emergency you're not sipping from a mountain spring. You're drinking whatever's there.

PureSipp filter straw in a jar of cloudy yard water

We'll Tell You What It Can't Do.

No hollow fiber straw, including ours, removes viruses, dissolved chemicals, or heavy metals. We say so on the box and on this site, because the day you need this, you deserve the truth, not a bigger claim.

For viruses, add purification tablets or UV. For chemicals, add a carbon or reverse osmosis filter. Layered together, you're covered. We'd rather earn your trust than win an argument.

PureSipp filter straw laid out with purification tablets and a UV pen

Why You Won't Find Us On Amazon.

Amazon can pool identical looking stock from different sellers into the same bin. That means you could end up with a counterfeit that never passed our testing, in a product you're trusting with your family's water.

So we sell only here. Every straw is independently lab tested, pressure tested for leaks and seal strength, and inspected before it ships. Our guarantee means something because we know exactly where every straw came from.

Hand inspecting a sealed PureSipp filter straw

Try It. Test It. Put It Away.

Drink through it at the creek. Take it camping. Fill a jar from the muddy corner of the yard and see for yourself. If you're not happy for any reason within 60 days, we'll refund you in full.

Because the whole point is that you stop worrying. Better to have it and never need it than need it and not have it.

PureSipp filter straw in a kitchen junk drawer
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