Natural Water Filters

Silver and charcoal are known as natural water filters. These two components are used in many store-bought portable water filters. Silver is a natural sanitizing agent, used to destroy pathogens it comes in contact with. Silver can be bought online as a grinded mixture and stored in your bunker. Now, did you know there are assholes out there drinking colloidal silver like water? They drink it every day and now they look like aliens with grey skin. So don’t get any stupid ideas, okay?

Charcoal is a fairly affective filtering agent, but it doesn’t do a thing to pathogens! Charcoal is most commonly referred to as a ‘carbon filter’ when grinded into a porous granular state. How is charcoal made? Charcoal is made by burning wood at extreme temperatures in a low oxygen environment. You’ll be able to spot the charcoal after a few hours of the wood burning by looking for the bright glowing embers at the core of the fire. You simply douse the fire with water and collect the charcoal.

Make a Water Filter

One thing you should keep in mind…making water filters is not a terribly complex or challenging problem as long as you know the preceding and proceeding information. When you’re in a pinch and in the wild you can create a water filter by using nothing more than; tiny rocks, sand, and the charcoal you collected from your campfire. If available you can use a soda bottle or anything else funnel shaped.

1. Take the tiny pebbles or rocks and boil them or heat them in a fire until they start glowing to remove any contaminants and loose sediment
2. Place the rocks at the bottom of your upside down soda bottle, approximately four inches
3. Ground about the charcoal collected from your fire and put a layer of it(approximately a half inch) over the rocks, then add a layer of fine sand above the charcoal
4. Repeat this process of half inch charcoal/half inch sand until you reach the top of the funnel
5. If you do have silver dust you can lace it through the bottom layer of the charcoal/sand mixture and I doubt you have an American coin produced before 1964 so let’s move on to plan B
6. You can now filter your water and collect the filtered water at the spout of your funnel
7. After filtering your water be sure to boil it to kill of remaining pathogens
8. Drink up bitches ;)