Safe Drinking Water in 30 Seconds
The 2-ounce straw that makes the water in your house safe to drink when a storm takes out the power: the tap, the bathtub you filled, even the water heater. No power, no stove, no fuel. About a glass every 30 seconds.
Safe Drinking Water in 30 Seconds
The 2-ounce straw that makes the water in your house safe to drink when a storm takes out the power: the tap, the bathtub you filled, even the water heater. No power, no stove, no fuel. About a glass every 30 seconds.
- Made for storms, blackouts and boil notices. No power, no stove, no fuel.
- 400 gallons per straw. That is 100 days of drinking water for a family of four.
- Screws onto any 28mm soda bottle. Scoop the tub, then squeeze a clean glass at the table.
- In the box: the straw, an 8-inch extension pipe, a lanyard and a printed guide.
- Filters out 99.9999% of bacteria and 99.9% of parasites, like E. coli and Giardia.
- Never expires. 60-day money-back guarantee and a 2-year warranty.
One for your kitchen drawer, one for Mom's, one for the car.
Single Pack
$78
Protects 1 person.
Two Pack
$68 $156
One for your drawer, one for Mom's. Yes, two cost less than one.
Family Pack (5)
$152 $390
Protects up to 5 people. $21.80 each.
Home & Car (10)
$277 $780
6+ people plus backups. $27.70 each. One for every go-bag, glovebox, and kid's backpack.
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Try it for 60 days. If it is not the most reliable piece of gear you own, send it back for every penny. Free US shipping both ways.
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See It Work
Real water, real time. Watch the straw do its job.
The Storm Takes the Power. Then It Takes the Water.
In 2025, 80 minutes without power at one water plant meant 5 days of boiling water for 250,000 people.
That was Richmond, Virginia, in January. A switch that should have moved the plant to backup power never did, and the whole city was told to boil its water. Storms do the same thing everywhere. They take the power, and the treatment plant, the city's pumps and the well pump in a lot of backyards go down with it.
After Hurricane Helene, Asheville's tap water wasn't safe to drink for 53 days. When one ice storm hit Mississippi this January, 118 water systems were running on backup power or had none at all. And CDC researchers have written about the part that makes it worse: "boiling water requires fuel, a resource often limited in emergency situations."
The bottled water at the store goes fast, and a case weighs about 26 pounds. The bathtub you filled before the storm holds plenty of water, and the water heater holds 40 to 50 gallons more, but nobody drinks it.
The Fort Ready Straw changes that. Its 0.1-micron hollow-fiber membrane, the same kind of filter used in dialysis machines, lets water through and keeps bacteria and parasites out. Nothing gets heated and nothing is added to the water. It weighs 2 ounces, cleans 400 gallons, and waits in a kitchen drawer until the day you need it.
Put one in your drawer. Put one in Mom's.
What's In the Box
Everything you need to turn the water in your house into drinking water.
- The Fort Ready Straw (400-gallon filter)
- 8-inch extension pipe: drink from a pot or a bucket without bending down
- Lanyard: hang it on a bag or around your neck
- Printed guide
How It Works
Four steps between you and safe water. None of them need electricity.
1The tap, the tub, the water heater, a rain barrel or a creek.
2Sip like a straw, or screw it onto any 28mm bottle and squeeze.
30.1-micron pores. Bacteria and parasites don't fit through.
418.6 oz a minute, about a glass every 30 seconds.
What It Removes
Its 0.1-micron pores are smaller than E. coli, Salmonella, Giardia and Cryptosporidium.
99.9999%
Bacteria
E. coli · Salmonella
99.9%
Parasites
Giardia · Cryptosporidium
Blocked
Sediment
Silt · sand · cloudiness
What Happens to the Water When the Power Goes Out
Water plants, city pumps and well pumps all run on electricity. When a storm takes the power, the tap can stop or go bad, and an electric stove can't boil it.
The storm wrecked Asheville's water system, and it was 53 days before the tap was safe to drink. Nearly 3 in 10 private wells tested afterward had coliform bacteria.
A power outage at a water plant dropped the pressure across the city. A system serving 2.2 million people went under a boil notice, and the schools closed the next day.
The grid failed, pipes burst across the state, and over 14 million Texans fell under boil notices, many of them with no power to boil.
The Fort Ready Promise
If your straw ever fails from a manufacturing defect, we replace it. And if it's not for you, send it back within 60 days for a full refund. No questions, no forms, no hassle.
Questions, Answered
What if my water stops completely?
Then you drink the water you already have: the bathtub you filled before the storm, the 40 to 50 gallons in your water heater (turn off its power or gas and let it cool before you open the drain valve), a rain barrel. Fill a soda bottle from any of them, screw the straw on and squeeze a clean glass.
Why not just boil water?
Boiling needs heat, time and a working stove, and in a blackout the stove is dead too. The straw needs no power and no fuel. You sip it or squeeze it.
Can I use it during a boil notice?
Yes. Most boil notices come after a main break, a repair or a drop in water pressure, which can let germs into the pipes. The straw filters out 99.9999% of bacteria and 99.9% of parasites.
Is it hard to drink through?
Sip it like a straw, or skip the sipping: screw it onto a soda bottle and squeeze clean water into a glass. That's the way most parents and grandparents will want to use it.
What exactly does it filter?
99.9999% of bacteria, like E. coli and Salmonella, and 99.9% of parasites, like Giardia and Cryptosporidium, plus sediment. The 0.1-micron hollow-fiber membrane does the filtering, and coconut carbon takes out the chlorine taste.
Does it expire?
No. Dry-stored, the membrane doesn't degrade. Buy it once, it waits with you.
How many should my family have?
One per person per place: the kitchen drawer, the car, the go bag, and a parent who lives alone.
Can kids use it?
Yes, ages 5 and up with adult supervision.
I live in a city. Do I need this?
City water runs on pumps and treatment plants that need power. By the EPA's count, more than 4,000 boil notices went out in a single year, most after an ordinary main break.
What if it doesn't work for me?
60 days, full refund, no questions.
Put Safe Water in the Drawer
Before the Next Storm
Two Pack $49: one for you, one for Mom. Up to 47% off, 3 free survival guides, 60-day guarantee.
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