PREP Just ordered my first Berkey Water Filter today
- Thread starter China Connection
- Start date
Which element do you purchase
Depends on what you want to filter. The white ones are bacteria/virus/sediment only. The black ones do chemicals too, but last a much shorter time and are more expensive.
IMO a much better solution - Emergency Siphon / Gravity Filters featuring Doulton Ceramic Cartridges – Pure Water Products, LLC
Emergency Siphon Filters
Questions?
Call us at (888) 382-3814
We offer free tech support by phone if you have a problem in installation or service.
Want an everyday drinking water filter that doubles as an effective siphon filter during emergencies?
Order the slimline version of our Model 77 Countertop filter and select the Super Sterasyl Candle as the standard cartridge. When checking out, request a free siphon conversion kit.
Total cost: $77.
Go here for instructions that show the unit in action as a siphon filter.
Go here for original research from Pure Water Gazette regarding the effectiveness of ceramic and carbon filters at bacteria removal.
Featuring Doulton Ceramic Filters that Remove Pathogens
The surge of interest in filters to provide safe drinking water during emergencies has led to a lot of misunderstanding about water purification. One major misconception is that you have to buy a $300 gravity filter or costly miniature hand-pump system to purify water.
Siphoning, an eons-old trick, will drive a water filter as well as a pump, and a simple siphon can work much better than an expensive commercial gravity filter. With our simple equipment, you can have a siphon filter that will make plenty of biologically safe drinking and food-preparation water for several people from the grossest puddles of water. A siphon filter works much faster than a canister-type gravity filter, and once you get it going, it keeps on producing water without a lot of huffing and puffing and pumping and complaining on your part. Any of the simple, inexpensive filters described below will outperform a miniature pump filter or an expensive gravity pot.
Before you read about the products below, you should understand that there are several ways to deal with bacteria in water. The common way that municipal water systems use is to kill them with chemicals—most notably chlorine and chloramines. In some parts of the world iodine is used to kill bacteria in water. Bacteria can also be killed with ozone or rendered harmless with ultraviolet light.
Since bacteria have a physical size, they can also be filtered from water if the filter is tight enough. Ceramic filters have been used for almost two centuries to reliably remove bacteria from water. In fact, as early as 1827 the founder of the Doulton company, the world's oldest water filter maker (see Doulton History), was using a ceramic filter to make the highly polluted water of the Thames river safe to drink.
The filters we offer on this page consist of a ceramic filter made by the Doulton company (often called a "candle" because of its shape) and a simple adapter consisting of a threaded fitting and a hose which we have devised to make it easy to siphon water through the filter. As water is pulled through the candle, the straining action of the filter produces a lab-certified removal of e.Coli, Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera), Shingella, Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid), Klebsiella Terrigena, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and other biological contaminants.
The ceramic does not remove chemicals or improve the taste and odor of water. To do that, we offer a couple of optional models that add standard filter carbon to the ceramic. Carbon is the most commonly used removal medium for almost all chemicals. But keep in mind that these are small filters and they are not a substitute for a large, undersink drinking water system. You can expect reduction of general trace contaminants, but small filters of this type should not be regarded as a long-term solution for, say, water that is heavily contaminated by pesticides or industrial chemicals. If used with chlorinated water, the carbon filters offered below will remove the chlorine and its taste. /snip/
Emergency Siphon Filters
Questions?
Call us at (888) 382-3814
We offer free tech support by phone if you have a problem in installation or service.
Want an everyday drinking water filter that doubles as an effective siphon filter during emergencies?
Order the slimline version of our Model 77 Countertop filter and select the Super Sterasyl Candle as the standard cartridge. When checking out, request a free siphon conversion kit.
Total cost: $77.
Go here for instructions that show the unit in action as a siphon filter.
Go here for original research from Pure Water Gazette regarding the effectiveness of ceramic and carbon filters at bacteria removal.
Featuring Doulton Ceramic Filters that Remove Pathogens
The surge of interest in filters to provide safe drinking water during emergencies has led to a lot of misunderstanding about water purification. One major misconception is that you have to buy a $300 gravity filter or costly miniature hand-pump system to purify water.
Siphoning, an eons-old trick, will drive a water filter as well as a pump, and a simple siphon can work much better than an expensive commercial gravity filter. With our simple equipment, you can have a siphon filter that will make plenty of biologically safe drinking and food-preparation water for several people from the grossest puddles of water. A siphon filter works much faster than a canister-type gravity filter, and once you get it going, it keeps on producing water without a lot of huffing and puffing and pumping and complaining on your part. Any of the simple, inexpensive filters described below will outperform a miniature pump filter or an expensive gravity pot.
Before you read about the products below, you should understand that there are several ways to deal with bacteria in water. The common way that municipal water systems use is to kill them with chemicals—most notably chlorine and chloramines. In some parts of the world iodine is used to kill bacteria in water. Bacteria can also be killed with ozone or rendered harmless with ultraviolet light.
Since bacteria have a physical size, they can also be filtered from water if the filter is tight enough. Ceramic filters have been used for almost two centuries to reliably remove bacteria from water. In fact, as early as 1827 the founder of the Doulton company, the world's oldest water filter maker (see Doulton History), was using a ceramic filter to make the highly polluted water of the Thames river safe to drink.
The filters we offer on this page consist of a ceramic filter made by the Doulton company (often called a "candle" because of its shape) and a simple adapter consisting of a threaded fitting and a hose which we have devised to make it easy to siphon water through the filter. As water is pulled through the candle, the straining action of the filter produces a lab-certified removal of e.Coli, Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera), Shingella, Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid), Klebsiella Terrigena, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and other biological contaminants.
The ceramic does not remove chemicals or improve the taste and odor of water. To do that, we offer a couple of optional models that add standard filter carbon to the ceramic. Carbon is the most commonly used removal medium for almost all chemicals. But keep in mind that these are small filters and they are not a substitute for a large, undersink drinking water system. You can expect reduction of general trace contaminants, but small filters of this type should not be regarded as a long-term solution for, say, water that is heavily contaminated by pesticides or industrial chemicals. If used with chlorinated water, the carbon filters offered below will remove the chlorine and its taste. /snip/
10-22
Contributing Member
Amazon has a couple nice gravity fed ones on sale. $40 buck and $70 bucks off with the coupon. *Note the coupon is the little box in the add. You just check it to get the $40 or $70 off and add to your cart. Both have the Black Berkey filters.
Purewell 2.5 gallon
$70 dollar off coupon one
Purewell 2.5 gallon
$70 dollar off coupon one