It's common on ones safari for the party to all share the same water bottles.

Not again!

Locals could have HIV, Hepatitis of various types, and all sorts of common and aweful infectious diseases.

The ignorant PHs might all stroppy about wanting your own water bottle. "Well you can carry it yourself! Don't come running to us when you runout!" As if the client wouldn't otherwise becsharing it anyway .... When you want to put your water bottle in the fridge or freezer overnight,beside the PHs it is a major imposition ...

In the PH schools they need to teach basic hygiene.

Maybe after all the covid virus BS, some hygiene might have crept in. Food preparation seems to be good. Water bottles NOT!

I caught glandular fever in Zimbabwe in 1994. Glandular fever is caught from saliva. So sharing water bottles is very suspect. I was sick seriously for three years in and off because of it. And still when tired get swollen glands decades later since then.

I think a camelback is a good idea on a safari. If you use them for all your other hunting so not an African safari? We don't all need our hands held endlessly. One PH once mused all a client needs is a rifle, not even binoculars. I thought "why even that, you can shoot it for me, I'll stay in camp,and also keep all my fees ...." Some of these guys need less false ego and far more maturity.

Enough whinging. A lifestraw product of some sort make a lot of sense everywhere.