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How to: Make A Charcoal Water-Filter for Water Purification

Category: Water / Difficulty Level: 1
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Using wood charcoal, sand, gravel, rocks, and grasses you can make a water purification system to treat suspect water, from lakes, ponds, rivers, creeks, and streams. To completely make questionalble water 100% safe to drink you still have to boil it at least 1min at a rolling boil...to be safe, 3 mins is best.

Here I demo how to make a filter with charcoal to change lake water into potable (drinkable) water...I drank it AFTER boiling it....I am still alive and well, and the water tasted sweet!

"Activated charcoal is good at trapping other carbon-based impurities ("organic" chemicals), as well as things like chlorine. Many other chemicals are not attracted to carbon at all -- sodium, nitrates, etc. -- so they pass right through. This means that an activated charcoal filter will remove certain impurities while ignoring others. It also means that, once all of the bonding sites are filled, an activated charcoal filter stops working. At that point you must replace the filter." https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/question209.htm

NOTE: Natural burnt WOOD charcoal (preferably from a camp fire) must be used. Kingsford and other types of synthetic "charcoal" briquettes should not be used - they are toxic. Also, avoid coniferous, or resinous woods such as pine.

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