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.
Jade Justice
Wolf Paradox
Jarret Doyle
Here is what I did, I used a 4 gallon I think it is pitcher with a spout and a 4 gallon food grade bucket. One hole drilled and done.
I haven’t tried this method yet but it looks promising. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0089934
thanks for the link uncle steve going to share and save this one
Georgia Greenwood
Kevin Glenn
C**p
Why not just take sand, from the ground, heat it up on a fire for a bit to sanitize it, let it cool and use it for your filter medium. You could also crush up some of the cold coals from the fire and use that in the sand and now you have an activated charcoal filter that only cost you some time.
It would still be recommended to boil the water before drinking it, but hey, you can use the same fire to sanitize your sand for the next run and to make more charcoal for the next run. Multitasking at its best…