Making your own portable water filter is highly useful for if you plan on going somewhere where there may not be clean tap water available. Now, not everyone owns a manufactured water filter, and not everyone gets around to buying one even if they are going to be in places where tap water isn’t completely safe. Luckily, there is a very easy solution to making your own portable water filter that you can take anywhere with you. It can also be made on-the-fly, as long as you have the few necessary items with you for making it.
The only items you’ll really need for making your own portable water filter coffee filters, a couple of empty water/soda bottles, and water purification tablets. As you probably know, coffee filters and empty bottles are easy to obtain, and you may be glad to hear that purification tablets are too Coway Alkaline Water.
The first thing to do is to fill up one of your empty water bottles with the tap water you’re going to be filtering. An empty standard soda bottle will do absolutely fine. Have a second bottle ready, of the same size or bigger. Next, use a single coffee filter on the opening of the second bottle. Pouring the water from the first bottle into this second bottle will stop bits of dirt getting through, although a lot of smaller organisms can still get through the filter. It’s recommended you use a tight rubber band to securely hold the filter in place.
Be careful when pouring the water from the first bottle into the second. Do it slowly, as the water needs to gradually make its way through the filter. Doing it too fast will likely overflow the bottle pretty quickly and it can damage the filter, allowing unclean water to get past and meaning you will have to start the process over again with another filter.
Once you have carefully transferred the water from the first bottle to the second (without any overflowing or tearing of the filter), you now need to drop a water purification tablet into the water. These are highly available and cost very little. If you can’t fit the tablet through the head of the bottle of the filtered water, just pour it into a larger container and then drop the tablet in. Or, you may just be able to crumble it into the bottle. This basically kills any excess germs that will likely have still made it into the second bottle of filtered water. Think of this as the second stage of your portable water filter.
When it comes to making your own portable water filter, it really is as simple as that. If you’re in a city that is notorious for bad tap water, take your homemade water filter wherever you go in the city where you’re going to be relying on tap water to quench your thirst – whether it be at work, at home, or at a friend or family member’s house.