Review on 🚰 CamelBak eddy+ BPA Free Water Bottle, True Blue, 32 Oz (1L) - Optimize Your Hydration by David Herman

In the preface: I love CamelBak Swirl bottles. Over the last five years I've bought about eight 1 liter bottles of CamelBak Eddy and used them every day. They take me everywhere (kayaking, hiking, horseback riding, napping, work, activities, etc.) and they're pretty reliable - not perfect, but definitely good. there are so many. My old stash was warped, leaking and moldy with use and mishandling so I ended up investing in two new bottles. I thought they were the exact same Eddy bottles I've been buying for half a century. I was wrong. The "new" design is a joke. After washing, I first tried using a bottle without a straw. The sound of air being drawn into the bottle to equalize the direct pressure sounds like a turkey's courtship call. And it's LOUD. It was heard through my house. Thank God I wasn't out in public or a recalcitrant hunter would have taken me to get ready for Thanksgiving. There's a less than 0 chance I'll be using this at the gym, at work, or in class, so I tried inserting a straw. Fortunately, drinking from it is silent. but an hour later, when I returned to the bottle, I found a puddle around it. Not from condensation, oh no. The cold water in the bottle warmed up, the pressure inside rose. And since the liquid can only exit the bottle through the mouthpiece, which is now connected to the straw that is now in the water, the pressure has been balanced by gradually pushing the water out of the mouthpiece over time. Now I have a puddle on my coffee table. When I tried to open the valve to drink, I got an extra geyser all over the couch. And finally the flap on that awfully shaped sofa. The last design worked great! Nothing had to be changed! The new design requires some tongue dexterity to function decently at best - and I don't want to kiss my water bottle to get some hydration, you know? I'm honestly very disappointed. These used to be fantastic bottles and an easy way to keep track of your fluid intake. Well, these are good hunting gear at best, or a way to teach high schoolers about thermodynamics. However, for a simple water bottle, this is not acceptable at all.