Homemade Charcoal Water Filter

Charcoal is the filtration media that many of our ancestors used to filter contaminated water.

Homemade charcoal water filter. To make your own water filter use a craft knife to cut the bottom inch off of a plastic bottle then punch a hole in the bottle cap with a hammer and a nail. Collect the dirty water that you are going to filter and set aside. A homemade charcoal water filter is fairly easy and inexpensive to make. Charcoal is a carbon a porous material that attracts and holds many harmful contaminants.

The charcoal is the main point of purification in this diy water filter. One major problem with the improvised charcoal diy filter method the main issue to consider is that unlike water filtered with a bio filter the improvised charcoal filter provides you with cloudy water. Used in both drinking water and for aquariums activated charcoal also known as activated carbon is very porous. Activated charcoal is one of the most widely used substances to filter water.

If you can set aside for a 1 2 hours it will allow anything that floats to rise to the top and then you can easily skim off some debris right from the start.