How To Build A Water Filter
Why do you need a water filter?
If you are concerned about the water you are drinking but consider it is too expensive to do anything about it, think again. Making your own water filtration system at home is very simple and inexpensive. Even if you are not the handiest person in the world building a water filter is very easy. You can buy equipment to assemble one or simply build by yourself with stuff you can find in almost every house. Each way the essential parts and components are the same. Because making one from common stuff is a little bit more complicated I am going to show you the steps of what you need to do. By keep reading below you will find out how to build a suitable water filter for your home.
How to build a water filter
You will need a 20 litter can, a trash can, a bucket and a washtub or a container. With a little hammer and a nail not bigger than a pencil, make some holes in the bottom of the can, punch the holes from the bottom up into the can. Make the holes around the center in a ring or a circle. Wad up some coat hangers, lots of them. Place a few clothes in the bucket base and the coat hangers on top of them. Otherwise you can just use some silverware, enough for 10 people like knives, forks, or spoons. You are creating an empty space. Then place a small towel with the edges hanging out over the sides of the bucket.
Place a few shovels of dirt inside the bucket and spread it out in even parts, then a few more until it is eight inches deep in the bucket. Place the towel ends into the bucket, and soft out the wrinkles.
Then put a few more clothes on top of the waded towel. Spill the contaminated water in slowly and let it soak down through your filter creation. Put your custom made water filter in another larger can or bucket, standing on some glasses or a couple of food cans or bricks to hold it up. Once every 100 liters of contaminated water you will need to change the soil. And there you go, now you have a custom made water filter.