Berkey water filtration company claims the government does not want us to be able to remove viruses from our water.
(www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com)
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The government wants them to label their filters as a pesticide. File that with the government's "Ivermectin is a horse medicine that will send you to the emergency room" lie.
Right is wrong. Health is sickness. War is peace. Taxation is civil. Poison is medicine. Men are women.
FJB.
AKA: clown world!
I wonder if this is what the Pur company went through quietly. Their pre 2020 old dark blue filter boxes claimed it could filter out microorganisms (microbial cysts, giardia lamblia, cryptosporidium). They had a shortage of filters for awhile which probably was due to something like this and then came back with aqua boxes that no longer mention their filters can filter microorganisms. I kept the old dark blue box when I noticed they had a new color. I was trying to see what was different and that was the only thing.
Gov trying to put this company out of business. Have been for a while now.
I really need replacement filters for my Berkey. I have been waiting over 6 months for them to become available again.
I could be wrong , but. You can sand the outside and have a functioning filter.
Thanks for this info!
I use a 4" x 40" agricultural reverse osmosis filter.
If you have good water pressure it will push the water through. Great for watering house plants.
Search Amazon for
40 x 4 reverse osmosis
Consider getting a water distiller (for use while electricity is available, of course). I keep my Berkey around for when the power goes out for more than a few days, but the distiller removes all the dissolved minerals that our water has WAY too much of, and we get plenty of the right minerals in our food and supplements, so don't need the overdose of them in our water. The pure distilled water also tastes terrific.
My understanding is that we want minerals in our water. Distilled water will pull minerals from your body.
You do need minerals, and during most of our time on Earth, we got most of our minerals from water in the streams and lakes. You do get minerals from food also, of course (read labels). But if you take mineral supplements, you get specific kinds and amounts of the minerals you WANT and not other minerals that you don't want, don't need, and in some cases shouldn't be ingesting at all. If you take minerals as part of your supplement regimen, you don't need minerals in your water. (If you DON'T get minerals from SOMEWHERE, then distilled water isn't the way to go). We've been drinking distilled water for decades, our health is good and our bi-annual blood tests show we have appropriate levels of minerals in our bodies.
https://boroux.com/products/boroux-foundation-water-filter
Not sure if Boroux bought Berkey tech or not but these are relatively new - as of when these lawsuits against Berkey started - and are compatible with existing Berkey systems.
It makes me wonder who really wants to take down Berkey and why. A competitor maybe? Which probably leads right back to someone in the government.
Thanks! Great information.
I just ordered a Berkey system, FJB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I read that they may put a ceramic filter in the Berkeys temporarily. Is that what yours will have?
I believe the ceramic filters are white in color, mine comes with two black colored filters which I believe are the originals with the "pesticide"!! Also, the pair of filters that come with my unit are good for 6,000 gallons, I'm 72 years old and drink about 300 gallons per year so I'll be dead before it's time to buy new filters.
I hope you shoot for the whole 6,000 gallons over many happy years.
Thank you!
Mine (which I bought maybe 25 years ago) has ceramic filters (not the original ones, of course), but they have both charcoal and SILVER inside; the silver is the "pesticide" -- actually, an antibiotic.
Maybe they've been forced to remove that, IDK.
Thanks for the info. 👍
Oh, i heard about this a while ago. I thought the gov won. Guess i was wrong lol.
Berkey is still battling this in court. I have been using old filters for too long. I wish I could find another source. Any ideas?
if you have an air compressor you can clean out the filters pretty well by submerging them in a bucket of water and blowing air up the plastic tip. don't need a lot of pressure (don't cause the plastic to separate from the ceramic).. keep going till the bubbles are coming out steady, rinse and reuse.
Thank you
What about the white fluoride filters that go in the lower chamber? Back flush them the same way?
I wouldn't. the fluoride filters have aluminum oxide in them and they leak this into your filtered water, one of the excito-toxins you're trying to filter out with the ceramic filters. pick your poison i guess, I have well water so i go without the white screw-on filters. either way these white filters are built to be one-way only and you will ruin them if you back-flow them. (im not impressed with how they work anyway)
Thanks for the info! Yes. This could help me extend the life of my filters. I didn't listen to my gut a few years ago when it told me to stock up on Berkey filters.
Came to ask this. I need to disassemble snd clean but I also have some leaks where you can add the fluoride filters which we don’t have right now. Are there other systems or brands that would work while Berkey fights?
This is my question, too.
Alexapure? I have an AP gravity fed unit but wanted cheaper replacement filters so I bought Berkey filters. Now when I look at AP, one filter is 150. I don't think they were that much before.
Silver is not a pesticide...
It is if you consider bankers a pest.
So true.
I thought they closed shop?
I called them and they just said the filters were not currently available.
I use ZeroWater system. I've tried to test the water with those test strips, but the strips suck, all the water I've tested come out the same on those strips, whether it's zerowater, bottled water, refrigerator water, or tap water. But the little blue monitor stick you get with your zerowater filter, says 00 when I test the zero water and it changes to like 45+ when I test the tap water with it. Even if I test rainwater it changes from 00 to a number.
Anyone know more about zerowater filtration system or has anyone tested with a better method?
I never got around to getting a Berkey. I do have an Alexapure though. It does the same thing as far as I know. You can get them on their website or from the infowars store.
Thanks. I guess I will have to switch.
7 stage RO with carbon block filters. Was going to hold on doing a whole house carbon filter, looks like that has to get going sooner than later.
I switched from a Berkey to this company so I didn't have to maintain anything, just throw out the filter after a few months and it filters fluoride too.
https://clearlyfiltered.com/pages/how-our-filters-work
Thanks!!!