Water filtration systems are expensive there s no doubt about that.
Bucket water filtration systems.
How to make an effective charcoal and sand water filter using two buckets.
It is amazing how these four materials can turn ordinary five gallon sized buckets into a portable and reliable homemade water filtration system that definitely works.
Electric drill with 1 2 inch and 1 1 4 inch drill bits.
Great for purifying even the dirtiest water.
Two five gallon buckets.
The more media the water passes through the better job it does filtering.
This water filter works something like this.
To make this possible we need to make a path for the water to pass from one bucket to the next.
You ll be able to filter up to 170 gallons of fresh clean water per day.
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That s all there is to it really simple and effective.
However it is important to note that simply filtering the water would not rid it of all.
Fill the bucket with lake stream river well borehole tap or rain water.
I once wrote an article about a purchased filtration system that i had to put together myself that wasn t that hard to do.
All gravity fed water filters work the same regardless.
Also the more media you have the longer the filter will remain effective.
So using the electric drill and the 1 hole saw drill a hole in the bottom of three of the buckets.
So three 5 gallon buckets is large enough to do a good job filtering your water and it will last some time as well.
The big name water filter systems are expensive but there is a way to make a gravity fed water filter system for yourself for a fraction of the cost.
One five gallon bucket lid.
The top bucket contains the aforementioned state of the art ceramic filters.
The water leaves the top bucket gets filtered through the filters and then it drains into the lower bucket.
Relatively easy to make with the step.
You are going to stack the three buckets up with each of them taking on one part of the filtration process.