Homemade Charcoal Water Filter
You may be wondering about Homemade Charcoal
Water Filter. It is only natural as it is impossible to trust the ability of tap
water these days. We are constantly assured that our tap
water is safe, but independent study seems to show the opposite.
Gravity Water Filter
In South Africa where we live,
water from our taps has always been from an perfect quality, but even here we cannot be sure any more. So looking at some kind of
water purification in the house has come to be a very high priority with everyone.
One of the problems you can encounter with this is that if you buy a system, it is very expensive and you are not fully sure of its effectiveness. You unfortunately get unscrupulous operators that cut corners and jeopardize our health in the process.
Making your own is one way of ensuring the ability of your ideas and it is far easier than you may think. If your
water is not very polluted with all kinds of bacteria, a simple use of stones, sand and charcoal will do the trick.
For many years this is what has been used on farms. You can make a simple ideas where the
water filters straight through a layer of small pebbles, then a layer of sand and ultimately a layer of charcoal using
gravity water filter spring
water or
water from a borehole, a very simple ideas will suffice as the
water is only “dirty” and not of course polluted.
Keep in mind that a homemade charcoal
water filter will
filter out most of the solid impurities, for more, an activated carbon one would probably be a good choice.
Gravity Water Filter
