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Just an FYI to any survivalists and preppers out there, or anyone caught in an emergency where you need to filter clean drinking water.
Below link details filtration of contaminated water using a simple cedar or pine branch. If you have a 2-liter plastic bottle or a 1 gallon plastic milk jug, cut a big hole in the bottom of it. Cut a pine branch roughly the same diameter as the bottle nozzle and you need a 2" to 3" length of it. (save the rest of the branch to make more filters). Carve down one end of the branch to fit tightly into the bottle nozzle. Use any tape to seal (duck tape, electrical tape, etc...) around the edges of the bottle nozzle and the pine wood.
You can now pour lake water, or other untreated water into the plastic jug through the cut-out bottom hole. Let gravity do that work. Water will be filtered through the pine or cedar wood and filtered water will drip into your drinking container. You should be able to get about 3 to 4 liters per day of safe potable water through the simple rig, enough for one person. If you need more water, then make two of them. You should be able to get about 3 or 4 days of filtration out of a single piece of pine branch before it needs to be replaced with a new one.
Water filtration using cedar or pine tree
I watched a You-tube video on this, and it really works. Another technique, if you can find them, is to use fresh cut grape vines. Cut about a 2' to 3' length of several grape vines. Put one end (the end that was nearest to the vine roots) of the vines in a contaminated water source, like a bucket or jug. Put the other end of the vines in a receiving jar or where you want your water to go. The grape vines will siphon the water from the higher (contaminated) water source and filter it while transferring to the lower receiving clean water container. Flow rate depends on the quantity and size of vines, but once it gets flowing it should be about same rate as with the pine, roughly 1 liter per every 6 hours. This advice might help someone in an emergency situation. Pine trees are everywhere and aren't difficult to locate. Just FYI.