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.
Catch rain water and salvage dew in the morning. Other wise boil
Already there. Works good
These work great. for every day use no boiling necessary.
Use a head tank that is elevated to a sealed filter housing. No need for air comp. or mechanical means. Use gravity
Can you use this as a filter for a small( 1000) pond?
pond lover says:
“Can you use this as a filter for a small( 1000) pond?”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/super-easy-diy-make-water-filter-35/comment-page-3/#comment-324205
No this would be to fine of filtration for a pond. It will clog up to fast. Now could you use this to filter water from that pond to drink YES.
I used an old sand filter and pump from one of those blue intex pools and then just back flush to the grass to clean the sand.
What is the micron on those candle filters. I saw a whole house filter housing with a 5 micron filter for $29. Thought maybe I could put the water tank up high about 8-10 feet and let it drain through a tube to the filter to another container. Or a rain catcher.
Bobby Riordan