Hey I get it berkey water filters are gods greatest blessings to all mankind. I just like having a somewhat healthy discussion.
Once your berkey is assembled, primed and tests preformed or retested if gone for more than 3 days they are one of the best filters out there as long as you don’t live in California or Iowa
I did start off my comparisons while in use off grid.
I didn’t say the pump was needed. I said if using in an off grid situation you would need to have the pump if you wanted access to clean water in less than 8hrs
Even with all the primer and back flushing the lifestraw is ready to go in 5-10 mins.
And sadly you do need their stainless steel container or you wouldn’t have anywhere to put the filters or contain the water that needs to be filtered.
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Needing to perform a red dye test to make sure you didn’t screw up the install sure is simple.
Berkeys daily usage tips
Recommend to empty the lower chamber completely prior to refilling the upper chamber. Apparently it’s easy to cause an overflow. Could cause some of that cross contamination you were talking about.
One must never set a berkey on its side doesn’t say why though.
Berkeys are a type of gravity filter
In a perfect world first use, filter life not a factor
portable systems = simple
Boiling water = simple
In a perfect world daily use with filter life a factor and set up done
Berkey = simple
Boiling water = simple
Portable systems = simple once backflushed
In a non perfect world
Portable systems = simple
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