Thank you very much for sharing this information. I know it took you a whole lot of time to do all the research. I look forward to your report on filters for ditch water. In a catastrophic situation, we’ll be as concerned about filtering out germs and parasites as filtering out nasty chemicals.
So glad your video on the berkey popped up on my You Tube. You also mention ditch or pond water, For emergencies, I have made sure my family and I have the Life Straw or Sawyer brand water filters. I sure hope these are legit on their claims in case crap ever hits the fan. Scary to think these water filter companies can legally get away with printing lies. Thanks for sharing your work with us!
What a treasure you are . It's great to have someone who is so interested and passionate to go as far as you have to help us better understand one of earths most precious gifts, the water our bodies need. Getting to the point of knowing just how clean our water source is extremely important and integrity is absolutely vital. Exposing Berkey is critical in order to stop them and the only way to do that is to expose them for who they are. I look forward to the day Berkey files for bankruptcy.
Thank you for all of your videos and research. Unfortunately I just bought a Berkey, and recieved it last week. I will be following you on this. Praying for you and family and baby ❤
You can always return it, they have a 30-day money back guarantee so act fast. Their website certainly makes a lot of claims without any evidence to back up those claims.
Reading the descriptions standard practice for me and finding links in them is awesome. I just happened across this series of yours, never having visited your channel, as a was thinking of buying a Berkey. I guess I'll be looking elsewhere to protect myself and the furry ones.
@@lisaw510 There is always fuel or electricity from solar. Boil a pot of water with a wood fire. Buy a portable solar and battery system to use an electric hotplates.
For rocks, low flying birds, and microbes and other pathogens get a backcountry filter. Katadyn, MSR, Sawyer, and Platypus have a long history in the lab and the field. They're not going to take out the chemicals (and may need chlorine or UV backup in some areas because those filters can only take out so much) but they're going to make your water safe from infection. Most, if not all, their filter elements can be used in a gravity feed system as well.
Thank you for sharing your research! I was contemplating buying a Berkey when your video popped up in my feed. I'm having a really hard time finding a filter that fits our needs, any advice you may have would be greatly appreciated!! We live totally off-grid near the top of a mountain in the forest, the only thing for miles around us is uninhabited wilderness, no other houses, no infrastructure, and the nearest town is 10 miles away below us...so chemicals/pesticides/industrial runoff/etc are of no concern to us. Our water comes from a natural spring at the top of the mountain that runs into our creek. We have Culligan filters under the house for sand/silt/debris, but we need something else for drinking water, either countertop or under sink. Our huge concerns are giardia/bacteria/parasites. There are beavers in the creek, and all the forest critters wade in and drink from our weir...occasionally, the bears bathe in it...there's always the chance of animal feces or a dead animal in the creek above us, so I'd say we're definitely in the category of "ditch" water. We've been stuck buying bottled watered until we can find a solution...I HATE buying water! Do you know of a proven filter system that would work for our situation? TIA!!
Water Distiller that 1st runs through a filter would be best, keeps your water and distiller cleaner. I have the American made mega classic from pure water, they have been around forever.
I appreciate your time in researching and letting us know about which water filters we should not use. Would you please continue to do this with other water filters and let us know which ones do work well. Thanks
Excellent work and activism here, thank you. I await your vid on what filters you find for yourself ! I've always had a weird personal 'naw' on Berkey. It started in my birthplace and all who know me are like 'why not'? I had no reason and wasn't ready to research. I continue to be 100% water vulnerable, so...hurry. 🤦♀
i'm now thinking using a zerowater as a finishing filter after distillation would be the cheapest (even after energy cost), easiest way to clean water.
only issue with zerowater is they recommend replacing the filters after 25 gallons. Aquatru recommends every 600 gallons or 6 months and it is a triple filter system with 1 replaced every 6 months, 1 every year and 1 every 2 years.
@@Evirthewarrior sounds like a good filter. I would still test TDS after even one week, though - learned the hard way (pun intended). when i was desperate 3 years ago, i would re-pour higher TDS filtered water back into the pitcher and each time the TDS would halve; i think i did this for 50+ gallons (a LOT of work!). just bought a 4-pack of ZW filters and they now have a scale of TDS per how many gallons per filter : 0-250 ppm = 40 gallons. the interesting part : 0-1 ppm (i.e. what you might get after distillation) : "N/A" ! I think in math that means "infinite"!
I'm glad you changed your mind. Carbon is really great at a few things, improving the look of water, improving the taste of water and improving the smell. And it can remove some things from water. But removing micro-organisms, heavy metals and bacteria from water is not among the things it does well. And in fact studies have shown that if you're not very careful and clean your filters constantly. your activated carbon can become the perfect surface for pathogens to populate on.
Thank you for this video series. I am a long time Berkey user but this year switched to distilled to get the flouride out of city water. As for getting rid of bacteria in ditch water, Sodium Chlorite (NaCLO2) 22% solution and Hydro Chloric Acid (HCI) 5% does the trick, 3 drops of each in a gallon of water kills everything in 10 minutes.
Robert. I’ve watched most of these. Boy I’m ticked! But, I’m still a bit dense…Berkey black okay or not for pond, creek water? I went back to #1 and #5, but not sure.
Zero Water is supposed to be good but some are saying that they only get about 10 gallons per filter and if you go past the 006 ppm the water starts to stink.
I have been enlightened by this series of vids and I have also been screwed by jerky filters!!!! Have you looked into Pro Pure gravity filters? The Economic Ninja had a vid on them.
Thank you so much for these videos. I'm kicking myself for not doing my own research before I bought my Berkey, but also grateful that I found all this out less than 6 months after buying it. I'm so glad that you decided to share what you learned on youtube, and I'm now trying to spread the word to everyone I know who uses a Berkey, and see if I can get this issue in front of people online with bigger audiences. I'm still working my way through all your links and references, but I have a coupel questions if you can get to them in a futrue video: 1: do you still stand by the systems you recommended in the first video description? I need to find a new filter and I want to make sure I"m screening out any known serious offenders. 2 - any idea how to get in on that class action lawsuit?
You want a good filter then do this: 1. Get the actual lab report from the company you are looking at buying from. If they don't have one or wont give it to you then don't buy the filter. 2. Contact the lab and ask if they actually did the test. I have seen fake reports and still have emails from at least one lab that stated the reports had been faked. (Berkey) 3. Have someone from the lab explain which chemicals the filters were tested for. It's in the report but sometimes had to read. 4. The lab report should be several pages long. If it's just one page then don't buy the filter. 5. Understand what you are wanting to filter out. Some filters, if not cleaned properly will actually 'allow live bacteria to grow inside them'. 6. Understand that there is massive differences between filtering water from your faucet or well, vs filtering for a shtf, pond, or lake.
What filter would you recommend for rain water poly tank. After a bench top or jug in fridge filter. Was thinking one that removes any potential chemicals from plastic tank and bacteria. Hope to here from you cheers.
🌺🌺REQUEST: 🙏 - Love and appreciate all you do, I’ve re-shared because all your hard work is valued by many. I just have 1 request. If you do future uploads, can you please try to make your sound/audio ‘volume’ levels, louder. because, for me, I watch tons of youtube, and I can hear almost everyone, except on rare occasions, and for some reason, your volume, even when I turn ‘up’ as loud as possible on my end, I can barely hear you. So if you can record a cpl/few notches louder, that’d be great. We can alway turn ‘quieter’ on our end, If is too, loud. I think you may be talking quiet, so as not to disturb hose around you, or perhaps you’re just a “softer, quieter” speaker, idk. But, I wouldn’t ask, but I’m struggling to be able to hear. Thanks for all. Always! 🙏☮️☝️🌎☀️🕊🌎💫 - I Posted this again..just in case you didn’t have time to read other comments, from previous video. 💪🙏🙏🙂BUT -THE AUDIO LEVELS ON THIS VIDEO, IS PERFECT!!! So, maybe you we just being ‘quiet’ on the previous one. SO, IS ALL GOOD!! Btw, I love that you’re so, detailed on your investigating/inquiries, and in sharing with us all, I SO VALUE you. I’m also one that when I do something, I need to feel I’ve covered all bases, take no short cuts, and need to feel I’ve ‘done my work’, with a fine tooth comb. So, I completely understand the blessing and the curse of being type of person who needs to do a thorough and complete job, otherwise, what’s the point. So, once again, you are much appreciated for all your precious time and diligence, thank you, sincerely. ..and Blessings on the soon arrival of your baby. Will keep you, your wife nd family in my prayers. 🙏☝️☮️👩🦲🤱🏼🌹☀️🌺🌟❤️💫🦋
none. no filter will remove dissolved chemicals. activated charcoal/carbon is not a filter, it is an absorber and will absorb fluoride and chlorine but only to the point where the charcoal/carbon has absorbed as much as it can, from that unknown point onward the water is questionable. there is no inexpensive solution to purifying contaminated water, there are only 2 choices: distillation or reverse osmosis. both are expensive, that's just the way it is. deal with it.
Yes! Just getting it to bubbling kills the bad stuff. But, sometimes you might find yourself in a situation without fuel or flame, so nice to have something that filters without heat.
@@Robert-Beaty it's been a while, but I read somewhere if you put the water in a glass or food safe steel (never plastic) set that water in full sun for 6 hours (1 gallon) it's better than boiling.
yes it will get rid of most bad bugs however there may still be chemicals, fertilizers, pharmapharmaceuticals in the water....but to answer your question, yes a rolling boil for one minute (at sea level...need to boil longer if above 1,000 feet as water boils as a lower temp)
@@OldSchoolPrepper Sorry, didn't quite understand the last part of your answer there - are you saying above 1000 sea level to boil longer than one min.?
glad you figure out that carbon filters are horrible for ponds, you have to use a sawyer or something when it comes to that kind of thing. I mean another thing those are good for IS removing the microplastics from water. A distiller would also work well for pond water of coarse as the heat would kill anything living. Also there is importance to STRUCTURE and well as mineral content. THE CONTAINER, temperature, darkness (as well as perhaps specific EMF phenomena) are supposed to be THE ULTIMATE way to preserve/store such structured water. So again all of those magnetic sellers, with magnetic stirrers and stuff like that LIE just as much as the berkley people seem to. This has been known since ancient times, and I believe it's an intuitive LUCID dreaming kind of deal with that...after all without our tech they would of had to rely on other methods to figure this stuff out...in fact we seem to do a bit worse in some of these areas compared to the ancients and their more rudimentary/foundational methods.
I suggest reading some actual scientific tests and not listening to what other people use. University of North Carolina Duke University of Michigan ALL have done tests on countertop water filters Being tested to NSF standards does NOT mean it filters out all chemicals, or even most. The NSF standard is a test protocol. But the filter has to be tested for every chemical you want tested for. Because my wife works for a certified lab, just know these tests are thousands of dollars EACH. So no individual person is having their water or their filters tested for everything.
Thank you very much for sharing this information. I know it took you a whole lot of time to do all the research. I look forward to your report on filters for ditch water. In a catastrophic situation, we’ll be as concerned about filtering out germs and parasites as filtering out nasty chemicals.
So glad your video on the berkey popped up on my You Tube. You also mention ditch or pond water, For emergencies, I have made sure my family and I have the Life Straw or Sawyer brand water filters. I sure hope these are legit on their claims in case crap ever hits the fan. Scary to think these water filter companies can legally get away with printing lies. Thanks for sharing your work with us!
Thank you for your effort on this and your other video. It has helped to clarify things for me. Have a wonderful day!
What a treasure you are . It's great to have someone who is so interested and passionate to go as far as you have to help us better understand one of earths most precious gifts, the water our bodies need. Getting to the point of knowing just how clean our water source is extremely important and integrity is absolutely vital. Exposing Berkey is critical in order to stop them and the only way to do that is to expose them for who they are. I look forward to the day Berkey files for bankruptcy.
Thank you for all of your videos and research. Unfortunately I just bought a Berkey, and recieved it last week. I will be following you on this. Praying for you and family and baby ❤
You can always return it, they have a 30-day money back guarantee so act fast. Their website certainly makes a lot of claims without any evidence to back up those claims.
Right on. We just purchased a PurOne filter system based on the endorsement of Economic Ninja. I hope he's hearing about this! 😖
I actually read the first description too.
Reading the descriptions standard practice for me and finding links in them is awesome.
I just happened across this series of yours, never having visited your channel, as a was thinking of buying a Berkey. I guess I'll be looking elsewhere to protect myself and the furry ones.
If you need to drink ditch water I would suggest boiling it and then run it through a filter.
But if the grid is down & there's no fuel...
@@lisaw510 There is always fuel or electricity from solar. Boil a pot of water with a wood fire. Buy a portable solar and battery system to use an electric hotplates.
For rocks, low flying birds, and microbes and other pathogens get a backcountry filter. Katadyn, MSR, Sawyer, and Platypus have a long history in the lab and the field. They're not going to take out the chemicals (and may need chlorine or UV backup in some areas because those filters can only take out so much) but they're going to make your water safe from infection. Most, if not all, their filter elements can be used in a gravity feed system as well.
Thank you for sharing your research! I was contemplating buying a Berkey when your video popped up in my feed. I'm having a really hard time finding a filter that fits our needs, any advice you may have would be greatly appreciated!! We live totally off-grid near the top of a mountain in the forest, the only thing for miles around us is uninhabited wilderness, no other houses, no infrastructure, and the nearest town is 10 miles away below us...so chemicals/pesticides/industrial runoff/etc are of no concern to us. Our water comes from a natural spring at the top of the mountain that runs into our creek. We have Culligan filters under the house for sand/silt/debris, but we need something else for drinking water, either countertop or under sink. Our huge concerns are giardia/bacteria/parasites. There are beavers in the creek, and all the forest critters wade in and drink from our weir...occasionally, the bears bathe in it...there's always the chance of animal feces or a dead animal in the creek above us, so I'd say we're definitely in the category of "ditch" water. We've been stuck buying bottled watered until we can find a solution...I HATE buying water! Do you know of a proven filter system that would work for our situation? TIA!!
Sounds like a nice place you live 🙏🏼
@@MrMonero It is indeed!😊 We love the seclusion.
@@rikkitaddei9208 sound like someone who enjoys the same things in life as we do too. The quiet life is the best life 🙏🏼
Water Distiller that 1st runs through a filter would be best, keeps your water and distiller cleaner. I have the American made mega classic from pure water, they have been around forever.
I appreciate your time in researching and letting us know about which water filters we should not use. Would you please continue to do this with other water filters and let us know which ones do work well. Thanks
Excellent work and activism here, thank you. I await your vid on what filters you find for yourself ! I've always had a weird personal 'naw' on Berkey. It started in my birthplace and all who know me are like 'why not'? I had no reason and wasn't ready to research. I continue to be 100% water vulnerable, so...hurry. 🤦♀
I can’t wait to hear who is actually honest.
Did I miss the video of who you do use to filter your water with. That’s what I would like to know. Thank you for posting
i'm now thinking using a zerowater as a finishing filter after distillation would be the cheapest (even after energy cost), easiest way to clean water.
I would watch the video on zero water with the nail polish added to the water.
only issue with zerowater is they recommend replacing the filters after 25 gallons. Aquatru recommends every 600 gallons or 6 months and it is a triple filter system with 1 replaced every 6 months, 1 every year and 1 every 2 years.
@@Evirthewarrior
sounds like a good filter. I would still test TDS after even one week, though - learned the hard way (pun intended).
when i was desperate 3 years ago, i would re-pour higher TDS filtered water back into the pitcher and each time the TDS would halve; i think i did this for 50+ gallons (a LOT of work!).
just bought a 4-pack of ZW filters and they now have a scale of TDS per how many gallons per filter : 0-250 ppm = 40 gallons.
the interesting part : 0-1 ppm (i.e. what you might get after distillation) : "N/A" ! I think in math that means "infinite"!
I'm glad you changed your mind. Carbon is really great at a few things, improving the look of water, improving the taste of water and improving the smell. And it can remove some things from water. But removing micro-organisms, heavy metals and bacteria from water is not among the things it does well. And in fact studies have shown that if you're not very careful and clean your filters constantly. your activated carbon can become the perfect surface for pathogens to populate on.
So what filter actually works?
You can get countertop distillers
Thank you for this video series. I am a long time Berkey user but this year switched to distilled to get the flouride out of city water. As for getting rid of bacteria in ditch water, Sodium Chlorite (NaCLO2) 22% solution and Hydro Chloric Acid (HCI) 5% does the trick, 3 drops of each in a gallon of water kills everything in 10 minutes.
I'm looking into Doulton. They've been around forever and have some NSF certs. I'm pretty sure they should fit the Berkey.
Robert. I’ve watched most of these. Boy I’m ticked! But, I’m still a bit dense…Berkey black okay or not for pond, creek water? I went back to #1 and #5, but not sure.
Zero Water is supposed to be good but some are saying that they only get about 10 gallons per filter and if you go past the 006 ppm the water starts to stink.
I have been enlightened by this series of vids and I have also been screwed by jerky filters!!!!
Have you looked into Pro Pure gravity filters? The Economic Ninja had a vid on them.
watch vid 3 of 5.
Thank you so much for these videos. I'm kicking myself for not doing my own research before I bought my Berkey, but also grateful that I found all this out less than 6 months after buying it. I'm so glad that you decided to share what you learned on youtube, and I'm now trying to spread the word to everyone I know who uses a Berkey, and see if I can get this issue in front of people online with bigger audiences.
I'm still working my way through all your links and references, but I have a coupel questions if you can get to them in a futrue video:
1: do you still stand by the systems you recommended in the first video description? I need to find a new filter and I want to make sure I"m screening out any known serious offenders.
2 - any idea how to get in on that class action lawsuit?
Which filter do you use for drinking & cooking water?
So I missed it, which filters will you be using? Can they be used in your SS berkey container?
You want a good filter then do this:
1. Get the actual lab report from the company you are looking at buying from. If they don't have one or wont give it to you then don't buy the filter.
2. Contact the lab and ask if they actually did the test. I have seen fake reports and still have emails from at least one lab that stated the reports had been faked. (Berkey)
3. Have someone from the lab explain which chemicals the filters were tested for. It's in the report but sometimes had to read.
4. The lab report should be several pages long. If it's just one page then don't buy the filter.
5. Understand what you are wanting to filter out. Some filters, if not cleaned properly will actually 'allow live bacteria to grow inside them'.
6. Understand that there is massive differences between filtering water from your faucet or well, vs filtering for a shtf, pond, or lake.
How about Zerowater ?
I hope you've done as much research on vaccines 😏
🙏
True story...fauci ouchi....v's create big pharma customers for life.
I did.
Literally🙌🙌
Checkout Brighteon health ranger’s latest interview on the vax. It’s alive, even after extracting the clot, it still grows
What filter would you recommend for rain water poly tank. After a bench top or jug in fridge filter. Was thinking one that removes any potential chemicals from plastic tank and bacteria. Hope to here from you cheers.
Turn the captions on please for the hearing impaired…
🌺🌺REQUEST: 🙏 - Love and appreciate all you do, I’ve re-shared because all your hard work is valued by many. I just have 1 request. If you do future uploads, can you please try to make your sound/audio ‘volume’ levels, louder. because, for me, I watch tons of youtube, and I can hear almost everyone, except on rare occasions, and for some reason, your volume, even when I turn ‘up’ as loud as possible on my end, I can barely hear you. So if you can record a cpl/few notches louder, that’d be great. We can alway turn ‘quieter’ on our end, If is too, loud. I think you may be talking quiet, so as not to disturb hose around you, or perhaps you’re just a “softer, quieter” speaker, idk. But, I wouldn’t ask, but I’m struggling to be able to hear. Thanks for all. Always! 🙏☮️☝️🌎☀️🕊🌎💫 - I Posted this again..just in case you didn’t have time to read other comments, from previous video.
💪🙏🙏🙂BUT -THE AUDIO LEVELS ON THIS VIDEO, IS PERFECT!!! So, maybe you we just being ‘quiet’ on the previous one. SO, IS ALL GOOD!! Btw, I love that you’re so, detailed on your investigating/inquiries, and in sharing with us all, I SO VALUE you. I’m also one that when I do something, I need to feel I’ve covered all bases, take no short cuts, and need to feel I’ve ‘done my work’, with a fine tooth comb. So, I completely understand the blessing and the curse of being type of person who needs to do a thorough and complete job, otherwise, what’s the point. So, once again, you are much appreciated for all your precious time and diligence, thank you, sincerely. ..and Blessings on the soon arrival of your baby. Will keep you, your wife nd family in my prayers. 🙏☝️☮️👩🦲🤱🏼🌹☀️🌺🌟❤️💫🦋
Are you using earbuds? I can hear him just fine. Sometimes I get someone who is can only hear out of one ear.. ???
Are there any conflicting results with the use of the SF2 filters in use in addition to the carbon filters?
What about using the Berkey to filter rain water?
how about Seychelle water filters
What exactly are your credentials?? I can't seem to find any information on you.
Which water filter do you think is worth purchasing, especially for fluoride and chlorine removal?
none. no filter will remove dissolved chemicals. activated charcoal/carbon is not a filter, it is an absorber and will absorb fluoride and chlorine but only to the point where the charcoal/carbon has absorbed as much as it can, from that unknown point onward the water is questionable. there is no inexpensive solution to purifying contaminated water, there are only 2 choices: distillation or reverse osmosis. both are expensive, that's just the way it is. deal with it.
Does anyone know anything about the pro one filters for the Berkey?
Doesn’t boiling it for 5 min get rid of the bacteria?
Yes! Just getting it to bubbling kills the bad stuff. But, sometimes you might find yourself in a situation without fuel or flame, so nice to have something that filters without heat.
@@Robert-Beaty it's been a while, but I read somewhere if you put the water in a glass or food safe steel (never plastic) set that water in full sun for 6 hours (1 gallon) it's better than boiling.
@@hmoser6416 Yes, uv rays kill pathogens, I've heard too
yes it will get rid of most bad bugs however there may still be chemicals, fertilizers, pharmapharmaceuticals in the water....but to answer your question, yes a rolling boil for one minute (at sea level...need to boil longer if above 1,000 feet as water boils as a lower temp)
@@OldSchoolPrepper Sorry, didn't quite understand the last part of your answer there - are you saying above 1000 sea level to boil longer than one min.?
Could you check out Seychelle? They have testing results on their website.
I think I would still boil my water for pathogens
Sound similar to Vaccine Adverse Events!
glad you figure out that carbon filters are horrible for ponds, you have to use a sawyer or something when it comes to that kind of thing. I mean another thing those are good for IS removing the microplastics from water. A distiller would also work well for pond water of coarse as the heat would kill anything living. Also there is importance to STRUCTURE and well as mineral content. THE CONTAINER, temperature, darkness (as well as perhaps specific EMF phenomena) are supposed to be THE ULTIMATE way to preserve/store such structured water. So again all of those magnetic sellers, with magnetic stirrers and stuff like that LIE just as much as the berkley people seem to. This has been known since ancient times, and I believe it's an intuitive LUCID dreaming kind of deal with that...after all without our tech they would of had to rely on other methods to figure this stuff out...in fact we seem to do a bit worse in some of these areas compared to the ancients and their more rudimentary/foundational methods.
I guess just strain it and boil it.
boiling water doesn't remove a lot of things.
@@UnschoolingCOM any suggestions?
Also i agree schools practically jail/enslavement camp. Time to unlearn …
@@zledphyrose3745 I use a softener > filter > distiller so my water is triple filtered. Pure water mega classic
@@zledphyrose3745 💯 👍 Should see my Schools Are Prisons post!
I suggest reading some actual scientific tests and not listening to what other people use.
University of North Carolina
Duke
University of Michigan
ALL have done tests on countertop water filters
Being tested to NSF standards does NOT mean it filters out all chemicals, or even most.
The NSF standard is a test protocol. But the filter has to be tested for every chemical you want tested for. Because my wife works for a certified lab, just know these tests are thousands of dollars EACH. So no individual person is having their water or their filters tested for everything.
🫱🏼🫲🏽