Living here in Belize is a bit rustic. We are off-grid with no public electric, satellite
internet, and water from a “rudimentary water supply” – meaning water from about
8 miles of PVC pipe from a clean river up in the Mountain Pine Ridge. The water is not potable from the system so
we use a water filter made by Sawyer Products, Inc. (www.sawyer.com).
About 6 years ago we switched from buying and
hauling all of our drinking water to using a Sawyer water filter system that
Rotary International was providing to people living in the area of El
Progresso, Cayo District, Belize. This
eliminated the costs for purchasing potable water and also the costs associated
with hauling. We filter the water that
we get from the public water system and also rain water that is stored in 1,000
gallon tanks. Guests that visit us at
our small jungle resort, Moonracer Farm, have been very pleased with the water
and no one has gotten sick.
Our original filter was slowing down after using
it for so many years so we got another filter to reduce the time to fill our
drinking water jugs. We have been very
pleased with the filters and highly recommend them.
Thanks, Sawyer Products, for manufacturing a
quality product that helps keep us and
our guests healthy!
