Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Water Plan: Part V

The final part of our family water plan arrived in the mail yesterday. We finally ordered the three gallon Royal Berkey Water Purification system. The two filters that are included can filter 6000 gallons of water for my family, or 1200 days (3.37 years) of water. The package arrived in a plan brown box without any markings to tip off the UPS driver that we are preppers. We opened the package tonight, and the stainless steel on the Berkey is nice and heavy! After 23 years working in a restaurant kitchen, this baby should last a long time.


Our future plans include ordering two more filters, and making some single filter setups with plastic food grade buckets. These will be for our camping trips, and a new how-to page on the blog. Anyways, this last item should have our family squared away in case of an extended SHTF scenario.


The filter rate is about four gallons per hour, and can provide 96 gallons of water if it is pressed into continuous service. No heat required, no electricity required, and gravity does all the work for the filtration process.

Keep Right On Prepping- K

4 comments:

  1. Those Berkley systems are nice. Gratz on the purchase it will serve you well.

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    1. It'll take a lot of work out of the water purification process.

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  2. I'd like to get a bore hole in here one day but I'd still need to filter it. That looks a good system.

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    1. It will serve us well. Plus, we have multiple systems in place to purify water.

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