Shocking Water Filter Review & Comparison: Berkey, Doulton, Reverse Osmosis, etc.

I have spent well over a thousand dollars and probably a couple decades at least using and testing different water filtering systems and with that accumulated experience I feel like I'm now ready to provide my experience and recommendations on water filtering systems and purification systems especially as it relates to a situation where we may not have public water available to us so let me start out with this system over here this is called a wellness filter this filter by itself it was five hundred dollars it has a couple different filters in it the reason why I like this particular filter after doing a lot of research is because the way that it purifies the water and brings it back to a spring water type situation with the different elements that it has inside of one of the filters this filter is no longer in production it filtered about a thousand gallons and then you had to replace the filter actually had to replace the filter within a thousand gallons or 365 days and I had a little clock and meter on there I think the reason for that is because it did not have the ability to stop bacteria growth in the filters and after so many days of the filter being wet bacteria would grow to the point where it was no longer safe to drink this filter only works with potable water you know and with water pressure so this would only work in a situation where you have city water that has already been filtered and you have water pressure to use it we use this filter for a couple years and decided that that wasn't going to meet our needs because I became more interested in what to do for long term water filtration and purification if we did not have potable water that's when I was introduced to this system here you can find this on the internet this is either called a monolithic or water system it comes with this snow cone type of water filter that has elements inside of it or things inside of it also it has a water filter spout and a kind of like a thick cloth cover that goes over there the comb to help the sift out sediment that you may get out of water this is advertised that you can use it with non potable water which I liked a great deal and then this is the two bucket system that we have it's very simple to make that allows you to use this gravity fed water filter another advantage is that does not need water pressure this gravity the things that I did not like about it was that once you filter the water you still had to purify it which I don't like drinking chemicals in our water that's one reason why I've been using water filters for as many years as I have and my wife certainly doesn't like the chlorine in the water another system like this is put up by I think it's called Dalton and what I found with both these systems is that they filter water very slowly you still need to sanitize or purify the water after you have filtered it because it does not kill viruses for this five gallon bucket system here it probably takes five to eight hours maybe more to actually filter the water through that's very slow and the water coming out of the faucet that comes with the kit is comes out very slowly so the advantage is that you can use it without potable water and without water pressure the disadvantage is does not purify the water and it is very slow to use which brought me up to this system here which I bought this is called a Zen system there are others like it find on the Internet again I like this because it had several different elements that filtered the water and brought it back to a spring water type of a flavor with the minerals and so forth again the problem is we've got the same type of a dome filter here which is very slow to filter there are other filters like the Dalton that is what they call a ceramic candle that again it's very slow does not purify the water after I purchased this one it was inexpensive and I'm always trying to find the least expensive way to get the best results as I was reading the instructions that said this is only to be used with potable water unlike this one here which said you can use it with river water or lake water this one here says you can only use it with potable water which means city water that's already been treated again this is very slow to filter the water the water tasted fine I would not recommend this at all for an off-grid situation we don't have pot of the water to use and I have stayed away from the Berkey system because it is expensive or considered expensive I did some math though and in reality this is the least expensive water filter and purification system on the market these all cost about 10 cents or more per gallon which I thought was a pretty good deal compared to bottled water and again with bottled water you have no control over the quality of the water you have have no idea what's in the water with the Berkey system even buying this one which is the 3 gallon size the Berkey royal it works out to be less than 2 cents a gallon of water now this particular system here I have 2 filters in it I have the black filters and these black filters each black filter will filter 3000 gallons of water between my wife and me we refill this particular container every other day so doing the math this filter here which cost me about $300 on Amazon I'll put the link below will last us over 10 years so $300 over a 10 year period is very inexpensive and we're drinking all the water that we want now what about this system is that you do not need to purify this after you use it in other words you could actually fill this top container up with lake water stream water pond water whatever and let it go through the black Berkey filters and you can drink it right out of the faucet the advantage is it you don't have to add chemicals to the water like you do with other systems like the the doulton or the just water or monolithic system where you have to purify the water after you have filtered the water this filters and purifies the water this actually does remove the bacteria and viruses that's something else that you can do with this filters you can actually test the filter to see how well it's working for every gallon of water in the top container if you put 1 tablespoon of for example red food coloring if the water comes out perfectly clean below then you know at any time in that 10-year period for us that the water filter is working I don't know of any other way and there are no instructions on testing any of these filters to determine whether they're working they just tell you it's only good for X number of days this filter here says that once it's getting wet that it's only good for 6 to 8 months this filter here the Berkey is going to be good for 10 years as we use it every day and the reason why I like the Burk is because it does not require potable water and it does not require water pressure and it removes all the stuff you don't want to be drinking in your water the chemical the chlorine and so forth in addition if you have high fluoride in your water which is something you definitely do not want to drink the Berkey system is the only system that I know that allows you to put on arsenic and fluoride filter you can contact your your local public water company and get a test because each public water company has to by federal law test and and make public the test results from their water each year and you can determine how much Florida is in your water so if you're concerned about fluoride the Berkey system has the capability to remove that fluoride for you matter of fact the Berkey system will remove 99.999999 9% of all bacteria including ecoli from the water they're the only filter advertised anywhere at any price that will filter that that cleanly now if you want to add chlorine or Clorox to your filter water after you do it if you're coming out from a very dirty water source you can do that for sure I don't see a need for that one thing I liked about this a lot is that a lot of people who wrote reviews about the Berkey use it for their rainwater collection system that they use for their drinking water so in summary the reason why I like the Berkey system is it is a gravity-fed system which means I don't have to have a water pressure to make it work you do not have to use simply potable water this allows you to use stream water river water whatever it pyrrha Faiz and filters the water so I don't have to add chemicals to filter my water it is the least expensive way of me filtering my water every day I don't want to drink tap water I want to drink purified water the Berkey system at 2 cents a gallon is the way for me to go so this is part of my preps that in addition is part of my everyday household use if you're looking for a inexpensive in my opinion the least expensive way to filter and purify water then I would how do you recommend there berkey water filter a couple things that I would recommend also is that you get this pipe right here this tube and it shows you how much water is in and I don't if you can see it on the video but right there that's how much water we have in it and so when the water gets down to here I simply open up the top put 3 gallons of water at the top and it fills up the bottom chamber the bottom chamber actually holds more than 3 gallons so it holds more than what it does up here if you want to convene a water filter that filters purifies your water that you can use every day so you're drinking healthy water I how do you recommend a Berkey system if you want a virtually maintenance-free system where all you need to do is clean out this chamber once a month with soapy water then how do you recommend a Berkey system if you're looking for an off-grid water filter purification system I would highly recommend the Berkey so another thing I want to mention to you is these filters are about 10 inches tall and so you want to fill the top tank all the way up each time so you get the maximum use out of those filters obviously if it's the filters to ten inches tall and yelling Philip the top of container halfway then you only getting the advantage of half of that filter so they won't filter as much water the water flow coming out of here is very fast it fills up very fast here also so we're not having to wait a long time like you would on the Dalton or the other ceramic filters that still afterwards you'd have to purify with some kind of chemical in order to drink the water something else that I have is the the Berkey portable water filter and purifier this is great for backpacking for going on trips if you're traveling internationally then you can use that filter how do you recommend the Berkey system I have not found one better at any price and I've spent a lot of money on filters I've also compared reverse osmosis and distilled water both are not very good for the body reverse osmosis removes and and distilling removes all the minerals out of the water which makes it a hypotonic solution which makes it acidic in a germs bacteria grow very well in acidic situations your body it wants to be alkaline the Berkey system does make the water more alkaline it retains the minerals in the water so you have the benefits of the minerals if you're drinking reverse osmosis or distilled water when you drink that water and it comes in contact with the water in your body it's going to be pulling the minerals out of that water or out of your organs or out of your bones in your body including calcium so that it can go back to its natural state that is a bad situation there's a medical terminology for that I forget what it's called but people die from decalcification of their body through drinking reverse osmosis water one of the ways to get cancer if I D calcification of your body so I would not recommend distilled or reverse osmosis water filtering systems at all I consider them dangerous if you do own a Berkey system please comment below let me know what you do and don't like about it if you own any other kind of system please comment below if you're considering a water filter purification system I would highly encourage you to look at the Berkey and I would also encourage you to read other people's opinions this is just one man's opinion I would encourage you to click the link below and go to Amazon and read all the hundreds of opinions and comments left by people who have researched purchased or decided not to purchase Berkey systems I hope this is beneficial for you and for your preps and for your off-grid survival and for your everyday health this is LDS prepper reminding you if ye are prepared you shall not fear and if you have a berkey water system water purification and filtration is one of the things you don't have to worry about

Channel: LDSPrepper

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Rating: 4.697751 out of 5

Keywords: Water Filter Reviews, Berkey, Doulton, Reverse Osmosis, Monolithic, Just Water, Zen, Ceramic Candle Water Filters, Off-Grid, Prepper, Prepping, Self Reliance

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Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 24 2012