It’s always good to have some clean, drinkable water stored as a backup in case something goes wrong with the city supply, but what happens when that runs out? If you’re prepared with one of these easy-to-make water filtration systems you won’t need to worry!
This video shows how to make and use the home made Berkey type water filtration system. This one is made for less than $35 in parts and you will see that it will turn the nastiest of Oklahoma water in to clean SAFE drinking water in a reasonable amount of time. This system is NOT super fast (yet…give me time) but it will clean 5 gallons of drinking water in about 24 hours (Website says 14 per day) . I believe that I may have figured out how to speed that up to 5 gallons in an hour or so, stop back and see it I make that work. This DOES NOT make water drinkable without boiling or adding chlorine or bleach, however in a pinch it would beat drinking it straight out of the river. This works GREAT and is SOOO much cheaper than the store bought systems that do the same thing.
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The Big Berkey comes with 2 filters 1 x With 2 Filters $258.00
And
Berkey BB9-2 Replacement Black Purification Elements, 2-Pack $107.00
So You do Math
2 Buckets @ Lowes $8 + $107.00 Vs $258.00
Plus you Have Something More durable
A little effort Never hurts
Thats Problem With people Today Their To Dam Lazy
Want Everything Easy, Then Cry About Things being
Cheap & Cost To Much Go figure
where do you get those filters?
http://www.berkeyfilters.com/berkey-water-filters/black-berkey.html?gclid=CKzohb6lnb8CFXMR7AodFzMACA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12futiH1s84
Great idea. Very functional. Also there are other filters you can add that an upgrade to this great set up.
Really good, gonna put one together.
DONOT use lowes buckets . use only FOOD grade buckets .
My Cotton cloth, Charcoal, sand, rock filter is much better and if you know how to make 28% sodium chlorite solution will purify the water in 24 hours, or you can make chlorine dioxide from the sodium chlorite solution and lemon juice or vinegar mixed at the proper rate. And only wait 20minutes.
Instead of the black Berkey element, get a Ceremtix element from AquaCera. It removes contaminants just as well as Berkey, and also has proprietary built in fluoride removal that removed 70-80% of fluoride. With Berkey, you need a separate cartridge, and it only remove 40-50% of fluoride.