How to Build a Charcoal Water Filter From Scratch | The Survival Summit

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[TheSurvivalSummit]

A quick note about this particular clip from our film, Survival Skills. While it's true that you can make a filter like this, you need to be careful in doing so. We would recommend only using this method if you absolutely were not able to boil or properly filter your water. Regular charcoal is ok to absorb odors and improve taste, but may not filter out actual bacteria. It's Activated Charcoal that really purifies water, and you need to add calcium chloride and water and cook that mixture, to truly make Activated charcoal. Moral of the story, boil everything, or use a Sawyer, Lifestraw, or Grayl filter. In a life or death situation, if you filter it well enough, you'd probably be fine, but don't risk it if you don't have to.

[mr.barnes]

That’s the prettiest charcoal filter I have seen. Nice tip on the pine needles I have not seen that before. Thank you!

[blacksprucesurvival]

If you have a bandana or some other piece of fabric you can also put your charcoal inside that the keep it from getting into the water as well.

[NotMitch]

Extra tip: you can skip filling your “clean” bottle with charcoal/brackish water by just filtering onto the ground until it runs clear, then attach to the clean bottle.

[MatCendana]

This is the type of video that makes surfing YouTube so beneficial. Thank You.

[jackson]

This may be the most important thing to know for preppers. Buy some activated charcoal and know what ground up plant material you can use and find it and have it ready. Also so it helps to add some sand and small gravel to get out the bigger particles. Using much larger containers for more permanent emergencies is a good idea, as well as knowing the best construction of barrels and their piping. Then you have a water filter for many hundreds if not thousands of gallons for pennies on the dollar compared to commercial tabletop filters, which you have to constantly replace expensive filters with. I would always boil the water over a wood fire after filtering.

[Sparkysings]

Thank you. I’ve heard of people making homemade Berkeley type filter but having this knowledge if stuck away from home I’d a must!! Learned s new skill today!

[shemamabell-irving]

You can stuff half a cattail head into the neck of the bottle and that become your particle filter

[joutubeJack]

By the sound of it, this procedure is very strenuous?

[abcstardust]

Thank you for explaining this useful filtering system! It has probably already saved lives!

[LouisTroyAustin]

Could you replace the bottles with clay botttles if you can’t find any

[joewolf]

Would it be better to boil the clean water after its filtered?

[Capn_Cantankerous]

I have a question.

I've always seen filters like this done with sand. Is the sand just for catching particulates like dirt clumps? Or does it serve any other purpose that might make it worth adding to the top of the filter?

And if using activated charcoal, would that completely remove the need to boil water? Or would I still want to boil the water after running it through the purifier?

Also great video! Very helpful in answering my other questions I had that led me here. 😎👍

[i.b.deplorable]

Excellent video. Thanks.
Question: Instead of collecting charcoal from old camp fires, can I use charcoal briquettes from a store-bought bag (as long as they are not treated to light with a match)?

[thedrew]

whichever charcoal will do the job? if i go to the supermarket i can find different types of charcoal

[ChArLie]

Would you need to boil before doing this?

[IsaacClayborne]

Shouldn’t you still boil it tho? For parasites and whatnot?

[OzgurY-itrl]

Thank you very much for this perfect video♡

[cosmoloveswanda]

Extremely important skill every living person should know. Thanks for sharing.

[angelicapui]

I LIKED YOUR VIDEO, GOOD DEMONSTRATION AND I THINK BOILING THAT WATER WOULD BE WISE AFTER FILTRATION BUT, maybe it’s enough like you did it also, thank you 🙏