To make a homemade water filter is easy and a good way top provide clear and safe water to your family. Because bottled water are so expensive and because we cannot trust the tap water anymore, it is vital to purify your water and you can either buy one or make one.

When you consider your options you have to take the cost into consideration. If you buy an expensive system, it will be easy and fast, but it will be expensive. On the other hand if you make your own, you will save a lot of money in the process.

But, saving money is not the only consideration. If you make your own you will also know exactly what is in it and the degree of protection your family will enjoy with it. This is important as many things have gone wrong with the manufacturing lately. True enough, there are many excellent ones out there, at a cast, but how do you know?

If you are wondering how you should do it, well a simple system, using gravity to filter the water through layers of pebbles, sand and activated carbon will give you clear, healthy and bacteria free water. The activated carbon will even remove the excess chlorine from the water completely.

It is even possible, that if you are very worried by the quality of your water, say on a farm or out camping, to treat it with chlorine initially to make sure you kill all the bacteria. Once you have treated it with the chlorine, you can them use the activated carbon to get rid of the chlorine. In such a way you can have the best of both. You have the excellent protection of the chlorine killing all the bacteria and them you have the protection of the activated carbon removing the poisonous chlorine!

I think this is the most important aspect to keep in mind if you want to make a homemade water filter.