Thanks for spreading a choice for people. You did a good video and easy with good detail . I will recommend others to watch your video. It will be a lot easier when English speaker explain how to do it.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words Jon. In reality your video is so easy to follow and we'll made that, any other, even a copy, merely seems like a poor sequel. We really enjoy your philosophy too. Much love, J&S

@Jeff-0621

Жыл бұрын

J&S, love the video, and now I am a fan, as I am a fan of Jon. Jon, you’re video is very easy to understand and follow. I worked in the water and wastewater field for years and love videos of home made water filtration system and how to make active carbon. I would love to see video of adding UV lighting powered by solar cells on the final tank where the activated carbon or an additional fifth tank. Also the solar panel placed on top of the tanks help shade, cool, and prevent BPA leaching into the filtered water. The carbon helps prevent that, but I believe cooling helps maximizing its efficiency. Great job all

@vaughan7835

Жыл бұрын

Hey Jon, from Australia. I'm pretty sure I left a comment on your video about how good your design is 👌 & It's really good to see other people copying your filter design & paying tribute to you & your community. I hope you are all doing well! 👍

@brentparks8524

Жыл бұрын

Jon, I have watched your videos many times. I appreciate them. I've been gathering the pieces for both the filter and steel barrels for making my own charcoal. Your English is great. Thank you all.

@shaunhall960

Жыл бұрын

Jon, I've seen your video too and it is wonderful! The more we share our knowledge the better.

Idea for you. When they make purified sand they basically torch it it in a metal drum rotating the drum of sand and burn the sand which turns bugs, parasites, debris to dust leaving the sand almost white. Sift over a fine screen leaving just the sand, and a much better filtering sand.

"It's recharging its memory". Did I hear that right? Water has a memory? News to me.

Brilliant idea and I like the idea of providing for the community . Well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thankyou so much! for showing all details so clearly. Nicely done video. I had been searching for how to do my own activated carbon.

This is very in depth and I hope to incorporate a system like this soon for our own property…thanking you so much for sharing this information..blessings wished…

Thanks for sharing! Actually anciant Chinese has been using this method for thousand of years, my grandpa old house & the whole village have filter similar like these, but most of them was all in one big clay jar, not four buckets(which is more advanced), inside also big and small rocks, sand, screen, cloth and charcoal, to filter water from wells.

This was very interesting! Thanks for sharing your experience. 👍🏼

You guys are doing great work keep it up!

Well done . Serving your community with hopes of clean water for all. A Kiwi's Boys dream for the world..

Having worked with water treatment standards, I'm concerned about the use of bike tires as gaskets. You should really be getting rubber that's rated for drinking water instead of just recycling bike tires. Aside from that this looks like a really cool project!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Good one Jay. A non leaching silicon would suffice as the gasket doesnt actually cime into contact with the water when used in unison with silicone

Thanks 4 the video, great job! An advice: in order to use all the volume of the filter you need to cut the excess of the screen: the flap of the net on the barrel wall is a shortcut for the water!!!!!! In the video, showing the filling up, the flow can be seen on the wall.

AWESOME 😆 THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS AND FOR ALL YOU ARE DOING TO HELP OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THERE WHERE YOU ARE 💯💯💯 GOD BLESS☝👐☝

You did good! Gave me some 💡 ideas for my two 55gal drums. They had food grade peroxide in them so a couple rinses should do it.

Hey! Love 💗 lovely from Africa. I saw the video too and I wanna try it myself too. Wishing you well 😃💕

Nice explanation 👌 🎉❤God bless you from India

Many Thanks and God bless you all

That was beautiful.

I noticed that your charcoal wasn't all ground down into fine dust and there were lots of chunks/pieces in there. My understanding of charcoal filtration is that it is only as effective (and long lasting) as how fine you are able to make the dust. Did you know that a cup of fine charcoal dust has enough surface area to cover one acre? THAT is how effective filtration works because the huge surface area can bond with a high volume of nasties (heavy metals, etc). So unless you grind it down fine enough, (a) most of the charcoal content is not going to actually touch the water passing through the container (so not a very effective filter), and (b) the filtration effects that you do get will not last that long because most of the charcoal is being wasted. Next time use a pestle and mortar to grind each piece down into fine dust and then it will be almost like a shiny paste when you activate it with the acid. For a few hours more work, you'll have a filter that works 1000 times better at removing the bad stuff, and lasts years instead of months.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

7 ай бұрын

We just did a water analysis. Coliforms are present. They range from 0.5 nm wide. We will add another layer of finely ground activated charcoal to the top as per your recommendation. Let's see how thick we can put it to optimise flow through rate.

Ola, Kia Ora and Talofa lava. Im living in Akatarawa NZ off grid using stream water. Thank you for the guide in particular the detailed parts in your vid. Starting this project tomorrow. Holla if you need parts, happy to send to help your community. You two rock! X Arohanui and alofa atu.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Che cuz. If you happen to go to Bolivia give us a jingle

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Did you get it done ok?

Brilliant!

⁠ thank you so much I will collect those from the beaches

Nice video. thanks for the lesson.

Thank you for sharing this video!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

right behind you is a roof fit guttering and down pipes with dump valves and water every time it rains ,lived on tank water a long part of my life here in AU and TPNg with the dump valve it puts the first of the a water on the ground thus removing droppings and dust and whatever plus a sieve with fine mesh on the tanks secondary filter .as a Kiwi you would be aware of this ,other tip use geo clothe as the filtrating medium as it lets through water but not silt ,reason used inland scapeing and other works

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Che bro, we are in Bolivia and cant easily get geo cloth but sounds good! Our roof above is tiny and 4 sided. Could set it up to collect water. Have done for a friend with a bigger roof in a nearby city. Here we get so little rain for such a short season that it wouldn't add much to it. We do harvest rain water into 3 swales and have a well.

Great job.

I love the chlorine dioxide mention in your video!! Mms is amazing!!!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

It's so good!

@maattttt07

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Did you see the newer documentary? "The universal antidote" check it

If you can generate enough electricity to run two dehumidifiers and a humidity gauge the water at they collect just needs a tank to run into

Thanks for sharing and helping the community there! Perhaps I missed the part of hamdling potential bacterial buildup found in standing water (i.e. if you went on vacation)?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

We havent had that prob as is in constant use. I am amazed at how long water from this stays good if left in a glass beside the bed. If you had an issue after a long time of no use: Empty the inlet tank and reserve tank. Clean reservoir with baking soda, rice water or vinegar. Refill and flush twice the volume of the reserve tank through it with some Cl02

@louismartin9546

Жыл бұрын

​@@KaiwaipermacultureboliviaCIO2 ?

Excelente

Good to see another implementation of Josh's work I maybe being fussy, but I'd be careful with the kind of silicone you use, screen material and the rubber, if it's in contact with the water, particularly after the carbon stage. Great work!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Great tip! It probably doesn't need silicon if that cant be found

@littlered55555

Жыл бұрын

What would you recommend instead?

@mfr58

Жыл бұрын

@@littlered55555 I would look for food grade silicone and silicone rubber then check the constituents and use stainless steel screen mesh.

@rachelwilliams248

Жыл бұрын

Isn't the Teflon tape another consideration for toxicity?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelwilliams248 Super neglible at best

Thank you for the lovely demo of such an important thing. What I would like to know is your experience on how the water behaves when you have it stored. What average or max. temperatures and what length and how does it affect the system? Point being a rough understanding on how often one needs rain or maintenance if the water stays stagnant in the 4th storage barrel. 🙏❤

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Its stored airtight so I guess a long time. Fyi I can leave a glass of this purified water on the bedside for 5 days and it still tastes pure and has no growths / discoloration etc. That is better than the commercial filtered bottled water we were buying.

@haliaeetus8221

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Thank you for responding. That sounds ideal! Please post more as your experience grows. This is super useful info. A joyful day to you.

Hello! My country(Uruguay) is entering a Water Crisis and I came upon this video. I love how you explain and I'm sorry If you mentioned this ,my english is not very good, in my situattion the water from the tap is doubled in sodium concentration. Instead of 200 mg/L, we are getting 440 mg/L and we can't consume that, and also bottled water is expensive and also starting to scarce because we are not prepared for this kind of crisis. I want to know if this system is for that kind of water with a lot of salt. Again, Thank you so much for this tutorial, if this works for my situation, I'll start helping my community with it.

Great ideas 🙏

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We borrowed them ☺️

Gracias por la ayuda . Dios los cuide.

Thank You

Thanks!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Wow Terry, you rock! Let us know if you have any questions. We'd love to help

Thanks a lot I’m trying one with the flower pot I seen a guy do it it seems to be I got a little bit out of it you take a flower pot and then put a cork or a piece of wood in the bottom and let it drip through like a Berkey called a ceramic filter

@johnfought9248

10 ай бұрын

Seems to work pretty good it does filter water but it’s pretty slow

Good

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Thanks

I have another solution. . . I had a stainless steel tank made of 1.5mm sheeting. There is no gutter water going into it. It fills by the water that hits the top of the tank, flowing into the tank via very small holes all around the lid in the center of the tank. As rain water is distilled and stainless doesn't leach toxins. . . U have water ready to drink.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

As long as the input water is clean from chemicals and bacterias that would work I guess

Hello, very good video, thank you very much! I am interested in knowing how heavy metals such as fluoride and arsenic can be filtered. Some waters have them and they do not alter their taste but they silently deteriorate health. I listened to Simon talk about a chemical recombination of aluminum and chlorine, perhaps you can give me some guidelines, regards!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

We have built this reliant upon Josh Kearns testing and design. Also with knowledge that commercial filters use charcoal and uv. For more detailed answers we'd need to research further.

Chur chur, far man this is rad!!

On my bottom layer of my filter i use cotton material but im wondering if mould will grow on this material, seems like it will

Also another reason not to drink bottled water is because there is higher than recommended levels of arsenic in most bottled water. At least here in the us. I'm not sure if it's the same there though.

Consider painting the cement and put cloth (bed sheet) over it while it’s still wet and repainting it while it’s still wet. Gives it a wonderful finish and strength...

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Hm will try that on the next project

Thank you for saving a life with safe drinking water. After how long do you change the materials in the drums?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Just the charcoal once every two years

Thank you for this. Will this be good also for rain water?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

6 ай бұрын

Yes

@marlon1925

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

She’s a little hottie. Good stuff! Subscribed

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Aye that she is.

I have my barrels and charcoal. Most people worry about food but clean water is more important

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Both are important

nice

Lemon juice to activate charcoal? Is the process that activates charcoal?

i wanna make this so bad!!

Can this be scaled up proportionally to service, say, every unit in a 6-unit apartment?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

8 ай бұрын

We often have ten people here and it has always kept up. You could easily add another barrel to double the filtered water stored if needed

@angelkaye1982

8 ай бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia thanks so much for the clarification! More power to your advocacy!

How do you clean the filters?

since your filter is dependent on the pressure of city water, if you don't have that luxury, a supply tank on the top of the hill and attached supply line to the filter you folks have made would be needed, as well as some means to supply the water to the top of the hilltop supply tank

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Correct. In our case we would put a barrel on top connected to our well pump with a float valve.

WOOOOOOOOOOOO

Rocks sand charcoal Thanks fir the info

Might want to consider biochar in place of activated charcoal. You can produce your own biochar.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

We definitely want to do that. Will make a video of it when we do

when quoting the use of silicon use fish tank silicon as bathroom or kitchen silicon has fungicide within it and would be bad for health if water from this was consumed. Fish tank silicon has no chemicals otherwise a great video

@nelsondog100

Жыл бұрын

I have a problem with using silicone in contact with drinking water, there must be a different approach. Would you repair a broken drinking glass with silicone and actually feel alright drinking from it? Maybe just a super good fitting gasket and skip the chemical contamination altogether. I’m also a bit hesitant using the plastic drums because we’re not 100% positive it doesn’t contain BHP. I’m wondering if concrete tanks would be more or less safe. Stainless steel is optimum but expensive and here in the Philippines some tanks advertised as ‘stainless’ are actually low quality stainless and soon start to rust.

According to some guy on the internet the best solution to your water problem is to deliver bottled water every day, because a bottle of water is cheaper than what your system costs. According to basic math that makes no sense and my bovine manure sensor says that guy is full of it. Probably hired by Nestle. Happiness and long life to you.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Ha ha agreed. We were spending us$8 a week on bottled water.That gives us an 8 month payback for the investment. Now we even use filtered water for cooking and could even trade filtered water.

Greetings to Bolivia from Wallachia You have a nice filtration of water almost the same as we do here in Europe in solitary places where there is no drinking water, but if your friend from Germany helped you I am not surprised, we have Germans as western neighbors I have similar filtration only smaller for rainwater as utility free i.e. before they introduce taxes even for water from the sky 😄 I have all layers in one container separated from each other by geotextile, filtered water then I store in IBC containers, I just don't have a settling valve in the gravel layer but I will finish it 😃 for me it was probably the hardest to wash carefully all the material before it was inserted into the filter, the plan is a replacement filter so that when the first one is clogged it switches to the second one by turning the valve and the first one is repaired 🥺 I wish you a lot of successful projects all the best. Standy

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

10 ай бұрын

Washing the materials did take time.

@Stanislavek

10 ай бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia 😂 🤏 👍

Another idea for killing microbes without bothering with Moringa seeds is this... With a large rectangular container (like an aquarium or cooler), partition in half with a divider in the middle that has a hole in it stuffed with polyfill. Put as clean as water as you can find on both sides of the partition. Hang a piece of pure metal on both sides of the cooler/aquarium. Using a solar panel or rechargeable battery source, hook up the anode and cathode to opposite sides of the tank's hanging metal strips. The polyfill will allow water to come and go between the two differently charged sides. After a period of time, one side will have water that is negatively charged and the other side, the positive. Scoop water out of the positive side and pour that into whatever water filtering system you're using. As mentioned in the comment below, the proton that you add to the water that has microbes in it, will attract the opposite sides of the microbe and they will stick together (think of a Cheerio (TM) oat cereal), and will make the microbe harmless. I wouldn't put the filthy water in the divided tank. Just clean water. That way you won't have to clean the Proton Water Producing Tank so often. In a pinch, one could just substitute the two Moringa seeds per liter (as described below), and just add an ounce to bad water, and like the Moringa seeds, the stuff floating within the water will sink to the bottom allowing the use of 70% of the water in the now much much clearer water. The goal is to make the microbes harmless. The Moringa seed method doesn't require electricity. I have 70 Moringa trees in my yard and a boatload of seeds. So when the SHTF scenario occurs and I have to drink my neighbors' stagnant pool water, the Moringa method is cheaper and more available and doesn't require a battery or solar panel. But, for those don't have a Moringa forest, the electricity method could keep them from having dysentery.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting again. Should we put Moringa seeds in tank 1? How long can they stay in for? Should it be one seed per litre for the entire system? I.e 4x 160ltr tanks = 640 litres and 64 seeds. Would the idea be to replace the seeds every full flush? We are contemplating periodic use of chlorine dioxide.

@surfviewgardens2396

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia After you watch the video I provided the link for, if you want to use Moringa with your system, you could consider a final moringa-charged fine sand layer. With that layer the organic matter of moringa would be absent and the charged fine sand can last quite a while so that it doesn't become a pain to maintain, and also by being a late-stage filter it could be the last chance to get those pesky microbes out of the water. It would be interesting to see a comparison of what is going to your house and the same water, but filtered through the charged fine sand. There is a small device that measures parts per million of what's in a liquid. That and/or a microscope could verify that the charged fine sand is worth the effort. A cheap way to prove that moringa works is to take two liters of city water, and put that in two clear bottles. Leave one alone and in the other put 2 crushed moringa seeds and stir. After an hour or so, see if there is a difference. Same experiment could be done with more murky river water. That will provide a more vivid difference. Do you have moringa down there? If you have a ton of seeds, you can press them and extract BEN OIL which costs about $400 per gallon and is used in the health products industries like ones that make lotions and such. Then with the extruded part of the moringa, you can mix that with water (like in the video) and charge fine sand - or you could just add that mashed pulp into a filter tank that you have to periodically maintain. After creating the moringa water used to charge the sand, you can feed the organic matter to your animals. It keeps giving. Lots of variations possible. Start small and prove it to yourself with two liters of clear and two liters of dirty water. Sorry for all the words but I like the subject a lot. - Jim from Phoenix

@Permaculture - Quick Question :) When and where did you use the "Medium" sized rocks? Barrel 1 = Large Rocks + Bricks > Plastic Cover and Pipe > "Pea Gravel" Barrel 2 = Large Rocks > "Pea Gravel" > Mesh > Sands Barrel 3 = Large Rocks > "Pea Gravel" > Mesh > Sands > Charcoal > Mesh > Large Rocks I checked the "Jon Jandai Life is Easy" video and noticed he did not mention any "Medium" sized rocks. Just like your video, he only used Large Rock and then Pea Gravel. Thank you!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Aka Pea sized gravel

You should get a rubber pipe. Pipe that can bend instead of that plastic pipe that will burst if it get bent.

I hope before you installed this system, you had the sense to get your water from raw juicy fruits and vegetables and not use/consume water treated with ALUMINUM --- of all TOXIC things you do not want to be ingesting! Plants can filter out what we can't ingest and provide perfectly clean safe usable water.

Hello, thank you for making this video. Very appreciated ✊ I do have one question, could this process be scaled down to one tank operating as the filter and one storage for the clean tank ... Did you elect to go three filtering tanks becuase thats what was necessary or as a percuation? Im in California going to filter city water... Space is a consideration, if you have time to respond, i would be very grateful. Thank you either way.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Hi Aaron, for sure you could do this with two tanks. I guess.it would need to be cleaned out once a year as a sediment layer would form on the fine sand layer i.e. between the charcoal and fine sand.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

You would know when as the filter flow rate would slow down

@aaronperez5047

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Thank you for the response! My last questions and forgive me if it's obvious but do I need to use smooth river rocks for the big rocks at the base? I imagine any rock will do and perhaps the smooth stones are better for memory but what I have available to me on the land is the more rigid looking stones, Wanted your thoughts on smooth river rocks vs the more clunky land rocks. Thank you again. You got a new subscriber.=]

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronperez5047 give em a clean and they will be fine. Fyi if you find that you have algae build up in the first few weeks of use just clean away the build up (probs will be at the top plumbing connections). This would indicate that there was organic matter in the media. The algae eats that so by cleaning away any algae that forms you will fairly quickly be left with a clean system. Say this just in case the rocks are hard to wash.

@aaronperez5047

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia You guys are awesome, thank you so much!

Have you send the water to the lab to be tested. To get a report. To remove guessing just how good the system is. Or can it be improved.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

The original designer did. It took ag chemicals and bacterias out for 2 years then required a change of charcoal

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I watched Josh Kern’s videos and yours. The filters are the same but the water source is different. Their water is either river, pond or well water. Yours is treated water. You said that it is being treated with chlorine. Wouldn’t the chlorine kill the bio organisms in the sand? Why didn’t you put the activated charcoal first? The charcoal would neutralize the chlorine before the chlorine got to the bio layer, which is in the top part of the sand.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

10 ай бұрын

They don't treat it with chlorine its actually poly aluminum chloride. The idea with this filter system is the filter out larger to smaller.

Always add 15% of time to the original estimate.

I always wondered if sun exposure is good or bad to the stet filtration system. I’ve seen videos of shaded or covered systems, as well as exposed plastic blue barrels. Does the sun help break down the material faster? Does it interfere with the internal process?

what can we add to filter the fluoride ?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Ай бұрын

Clean, crushed sea shells if you are by the ocean

thanks for video is the water after filtration free of chloride and fluoride?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Yes

Bravo.........heads up.......is ur roof asphalt shingles ......or galvanize.......many no be the best water ......test water......cheers

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

We are using town water as the source and may switch to well water.

How often does the charcoal have to be changed out? Seems it would be better to put charcoal in a mesh sack so you can change out.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Once every two years.

can you please share the pipe layout in a picture or a small video of pipe flow tank to tank.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Coming soon

@nelsondog100

Жыл бұрын

Watch the original videos on the Life is Easy Jon Jondia channel.

Mate, have you tested the water (End Results) with a Micro Siemens meter? Electro Conductivity (EC)? Any reading over 50 Mms/m2 is considered HARD water.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Would if I had the equipment 😉

Where does.the.water come from to fill.the barrels? Is it rain water? What if it doesnt rain?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

16 күн бұрын

From the town water and when that fails from the well

+ 1 dog paw ❤

I’m curious how long it takes to refill the storage tank after it’s run dry from normal usage. How long is one complete filtering cycle? I know it may be difficult but just an estimation of time if you please.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

I estimate we purity 160 litres in less than an hour. Maybe I'll time it sometime. You dont want it to push through too fast.

@nelsondog100

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia the system isn’t under pressure so I don’t think it’s possible to overrun or over use it.

Will the water filtration barrel setup filter out chlorine and fluoride? Is there somewhere to get a list of the stuff that it will filter out or that it will not filter out?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Yes it will filter chlorine and flouride The chemicals I would worry about would be the super corrosive kind like those our poor brothers and sisters in Ohio are being assaulted with. In that instance I would switch to cement trenches with overflow dividers of cement too and much more carbon in the trench to fill an in ground tank to act as a clean water reservoir..

@brianmgrim

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I’ve been told that alum is a necessary filter media to leech out fluoride. If this is true, which of your media contains alum?

Dam its nearly impossible to find things that are non toxic to use 😢 I wonder 🤔 if making cobb or clay barrels would work and not crack ? How are you guys filling these ? How are you guys replacing the filters ? How often?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Details in the video

Interesting. I wonder how much fermented foods are a part of their diet? |

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Kombucha on the daily!

So is Teflon tape safer than Teflon coating on pans? I hope so, as I truly don't know!

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

If not scraped...

Have u tried rain 🌧 harvesting there in bolivia

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

There is not much rain here. On this farm we harvest rain water with swales and an infiltration pond. That protects our well which we could use as the water source for the water filter

I have a Q; I'm in the Philippines and our shallow well is very iron rich and sandy. It's dense black volcanic sand and it clogs our pump filter regularly. How will this affect this filtration system ie how do we get the black sand out of the first stage, without having to strip it down?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

That is the function of the first tank. The sediment will settle to the bottom and there is a flush valve. So just with periodic flushing should be good as gold

@tyrotrainer765

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia Hehehe I've heard of service with a smile, but I get a heart! Thanks.... I have just sold my wife on this after she's just had a hard day teaching, so I'll get busy sourcing materials, especially the barrels... The rest is definitely ok here. I've got a cunning plan to use the output from our well pressure tank (52psi)/32psi) into stage 1, by using a half inch inlet pipe with a ball valve so as to regulate the inflow. If you think that's not a good idea let me know; we are paying around $10 a week on distilled bottled water. Right now we only use the well for showering and washing dishes, plus watering plants. I suspect that this filtration system will recoup that in a few months. Many thanks for the quick reply.

I have a dugout with swimmers itch Will this type of filter remove the bug

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@CMAenergy

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia I sure hope so, and thanks as I had planned to put this is for rain water and also considering drilling a well by hand myself, Praying it turns out ok

So this is a system for cleaning rainwater / water from the river or the kitchen sink. Okay! But what about water from the toilet? How do you deal with that?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Biodigestors incorporating plant filtration tanks, even then just used for watering not drinking (if you have a choice)

From Jon's video, the flow from first tank to second tanks inlet was at the same level. Why did you bring the second tank inlet to the bottom? Did something fail from the initial design?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

I dont think it was. The flow from the 3rd to 4th is level

@The_Hairy_Farmer

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia - In bottom of tank 1, out top of tank 1 - in top of tank 2, out bottom of tank 2 - in top of tank 3, out bottom of tank 3 - in top of tank 4, out bottom of tank 4.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

@@The_Hairy_Farmer *in bottom tank 2/out top tank 2, in bottom tank 3/out top tank three, in top tank 4/out bottom tank 4

@The_Hairy_Farmer

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia - How I said it is how it is in Jon's original video, as @vmicheni also said.

Why do you need to put the float valve at the bottom of the tank? Would it work if the float valve would be installed somewhere at the top of the tank, but the output of the float valve would be installed with a pipe which would run down to the bottom of the tank where the bricks and large stones are placed?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Yes the float is at the top water level near the top of the tank. The actual valve is near the bottom, the switch off arm is connected to the float with a string that is inside a tube to allow free movement

@Erick-Tags

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia i meant the whole assembly, including the valve, would be somewhere on top. Then just connect a pipe to the output of the float valve so that it goes down to the bottom, in that way, the water still fills from bottom to top.

@jimhood1202

Жыл бұрын

​@@Erick-Tags yes, that would work also. Easier to check operation and maintain the valve. Some ball valves have outlets with threads for this purpose but they are sometimes hard to find.

Coupler is pronounced like cup. cup lers or cup lings.

Wow not making fun but this is very similar to the filter system I made for my fish tank. I have a UV filter at the end before going into the tank.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Lucky fish lol

@dsmmike95

Жыл бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia yes they have cleaner water then I drink lol.

if you inject relatively clean water in the input with chlorine in it it will kill bacteria then the biofilm will not form on the sand, so the filter will use only physical and chemical filtration but not biological, which is your goal I suppose. Have you had your water tested in a laboratory ?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

3 ай бұрын

Yes, coliforms were detected. We installed uv light on the end to take care of it

@felixdebon962

3 ай бұрын

@@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia why do you have coliforms if you have chlorine in the water ?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

3 ай бұрын

@@felixdebon962 have not been regular with batch processing and applying. Also while we have some CDS we don't produce it so would rather integrate uv to remove that dependancy

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

3 ай бұрын

@@felixdebon962 Cl02 not chlorine

So do the farmers cultivate with Chemical fertiliser or Organic?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Most integrate animals and their manure, but then there are all of the cides...

You have built an upflow filter system. Wouldn't a downflow filter be simpler? Thanks

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Up flow supports solids to settle at the bottom.

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

We could put a header tank on it to provide downflow to the system with batch refill of that tank if it needed to be filled by pumping or manual means

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

@@tomtomate8455 so that it can come out with pressure at lower elevations in case you plumb taps from the last tank. We have a tap from this filter in our kitchen and do notice when the water level is low

Will this method remove chemicals, like the ones that spilled in East Palestine, Ohio?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Hi Nancy, those seem super toxic and corrosive. I would use the same sequential system but instead of plastic barrels make cement structures or trenches. It will work that way.

My well has a liitle bit more salt. Can this filter it out?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

According to the CDC: "Reverse Osmosis Systems will remove common chemical contaminants (metal ions, aqueous salts), including sodium, chloride, copper, chromium, and lead; may reduce arsenic, fluoride, radium, sulfate, calcium, magnesium, potassium, nitrate, and phosphorous.". I wouldnt trust their advice on injections but

What water did you use to clean all the material (I thought the water was bed) 🤔 Isn't that trading one Bad thing for another.?

@Kaiwaipermaculturebolivia

Жыл бұрын

Irrespective of the water used to clean once you flush the system two times the system should be clean.