Big Berkey Water Filters

Imagine for a moment a father and his sons go camping in a remote area of the United States and decide to go for a hike. After some exertion, they come upon a crystal clear stream with a small pool of water large enough to swim in. Stripping to their underwear, they dive in and enjoy a refreshing swim. The stream is clear and the water supply unlimited, so the children decide it is safe to quench their thirst. However, this camping trip gets cut short because of violent vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps. How could such a clear and remote water source be contaminated?

Fresh water can look very clean, but actually be very dangerous. Water borne bacteria, parasites, and viruses are invisible to the naked eye, but may times are dangerously present. One reason for this is that streams are the water supply for a variety of animals. Upstream, deer, bears, and other animals may bathe and defecate in the stream. The bacteria ultimately floats downstream, contaminating what appears to be clean water.

So what could have caused the sickness in these camping kids? The symptoms are characteristic of amoebiasis, a protozoan contamination caused by human or animal waste. But, it just as easily could have been bacteria such as giardia, cryptosporidium, or e-Coli.

If you could advise this father on how to handle this situation in the future, what would you tell him? Of course, you would tell him to not let the children drink any water source that is open and susceptible to contamination. But what if they only have a limited supply of safe drinking water for their camping trip? Boiling water for twenty minutes will get rid of most diseases, but it is not always practical.

A practical solution to this problem is to take a gravity fed berkey water filter to the camp site or carry along a portable water filter such as the Berkey sport bottle. Both Berkey products can be filled with questionable water and purified to a clean drinking state. They are extremely effective at removing the harmful bacteria, parasites, and viruses while also leaving in the beneficial minerals needed for the body. Once the water has passed through the Berkey filter, this family will know that their water is safe to drink and won’t have an impact on their vacation.

Water has always been considered the universal thirst quencher and definitely something that we could never live without. Lately, however, safety in consumption has been an issue due to people’s neglect of the environment and the failure to realize the importance of keeping our resources safe for ourselves and future generations. Portable water filters have recently been developed, allowing convenient water filtration on-the-go, reducing one’s carbon footprint, and saving money on bottled water purchases. The popular Berkey sport water bottle filter does just this.

The Berkey Sport Portable Water Filter

Why A Portable Water Filter?

Deciding to actually invest in something like the berkey water bottle filter will guarantee you savings from all that continuous consumption of purified or bottled water. Imagine this, all you need is just one portable water filter and you will immediately see all the other bottles disappear. It is inexpensive and gives you the freedom from spending a few dollars everyday at the store or vending machines on bottles of water.

If you are wondering how this portable water filter looks and imagine yourself carrying a bulky system resembling something attached to your faucets at home, this is not the case. The sport bottle is 11 inches tall, 2.5 inches in diameter, and has a loop for hooking onto your backpack or shorts.  The convenience of having a reliable, high quality water bottle filter available on-the-go is the primary motive that drives more and more people to utilize these. Imagine being able to fill up your bottle with water from any source, any time, any where.

The Sport Berkey Water Bottle Filter

Portable water filters come in different shapes, sizes, prices, and efficiency and they all bring various levels of value, convenience, and safety. Our popular water bottle filter is the 22 ounce sport berkey. This simple and very effective product uses an ionic adsorption micro filtration process removing harmful bacteria, chemicals, and contaminants from water sources such as municipal water and lakes alike.

The most amazing part is that even though the sport berkey water purifier takes care of many toxic chemicals found in water, it is very simple to use. Once your receive your portable water filter, all you need to do is flush the filter with water twice to remove the manufacturing dust and you’re good to go. You can then fill the bottle from any source and just squeeze to be able to enjoy your safe drinking water.

The sport berkey portable water filter will provide it’s owner clean, healthy water over a long duration of time. The mini water filter inside can purify 160 refills of “dirty” untreated water for when you go camping, or 640 “clean” water refills from your home, car, or office. Cleaning after prolonged use and allowing the water filter to air dry will help the filter maintain it’s integrity. Once the water filter has reached saturation capacity, simply swap it out for a sport berkey replacement filter and you’re back in business.  This process only takes 30 seconds

Berkey Sport Replacement Filter

Save yourself and the environment the cost and hassle of buying and throwing away another bottle of water and get the sport berkey portable water filter. The water you drink will be pure, convenient, and inexpensive.