Why I love my Berkey Water Filter
I get a lot of questions about the Berkey water filter. People often ask what kind of water do I drink and what kind of water filter do I use. For years I have used an alkalizing water filter which was great. But the more I researched the more I understood about fluoride and the dangers it has on our health. You can read more about fluoride in my article Fluoride, Should I Be Drinking It. I will stop here, but I could teach a whole class on the dangers of fluoride. (Hmm.. good idea)
More than 200 million Americans are exposed to unsafe levels of heavy metal contaminants, pesticides, and other toxic chemicals
What is a Berkey Water Filter?
- A complete standalone, filter system.
- Requires No Electricity – Does not have to be connected to your home plumbing system.
- Filters 6000 gallons per set of 2 black Berkey filters = Costs only pennies per gallon.
- Ability to remove/reduce chlorine, fluoride, pathogens, VOC’s, heavy metals, and more.
Benefits Of The Berkey Water Filter In Your Home
- Removes Toxins/Chemicals – It removes hundreds of toxic elements from your water: Bacteria and parasites, heavy metals like lead and mercury. Chemicals such as benzene, chlorine and chromium-6, pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs and more. It removes these elements to levels higher than 99.99% Wow!
- Portable – The Berkey comes in different sizes to fit any families needs. It is portable so you can take in with you on a road trip vacation. I am getting one for my kids for their dorm room. It’s also great in emergencies when the power goes out like in a hurricane. It can filter pond water and make it potable for drinking.
- Economical – The water filtration elements inside every Berkey system are cleanable, this allows each Black Berkey element to produce up to 3000 gallons of purified drinking water without the costly need of replacement. Take our most popular system the Big Berkey for example. This system comes with two filters, so the life of these filters would be 6000 gallons. The average family of four would drink about 2 to 4 gallons of water per day. Under those conditions the filters would not need replaced for a minimum of 4 years. That’s using the Berkey to produce every drop of drinking and cooking water you would need for 1500 continuous days!`
- Removes Fluoride & Arsenic – The Berkey removes 95% of fluoride and arsenic. Fluoride is not something you want to be drinking, it is toxic to the body and does not help your teeth.
- Gravity Powered – The Berkey system works with gravity and there is no electricity needed. The filter can sit on your counter and needs nothing else.
Here are a few examples of various contaminants and chemicals used as water treatments commonly found in tap water (there are many more!)
- Chlorine
- Fluoride
- Pharmaceuticals
- Disinfectant Byproducts –when water is treated with chlorine, the result is disinfectant byproducts which have been proven to be even more dangerous than the chlorine itself.
- Poly-fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) includes Teflon
- Micro-Organisms and Pathogenic Bacteria
- Inorganic Minerals
- Heavy Metals
- Arsenic
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
As you can see, there are quite a few chemicals in our water supply that we’d be better off without. This is why it is essential for us to make sure our drinking water is as pure as possible.
How do we do that? By using this Berkey water filter. If you’re thinking bottled water is a better option, think again, most of it is just tap water.
Berkey water filter systems are far superior to other filtration systems because they remove harmful pathogenic bacteria, cysts, parasites, and unhealthy chemical contaminants such as Chlorine to levels higher than 99.99%, while at the same time leaving in the essential minerals your body needs.
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Lisa says
Hi Laura – I appreciate this article on Berkey. After reading this, I found this guide for helping decide what size system is best that I thought could help other readers.
https://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com/blog/berkey/help-me-choose-a-berkey-filter-system/
Laura London says
Great! Thank you for sharing it with us Lisa.
Val Johnson says
Hi Laura, I am just now launching a new water filter product to address the long standing drawbacks of gravity filters shared by most if not all of the gravity systems out there. My product is called Wellspring. The company and website is wellspringpure.com Inherent to gravity filters is the fact that you have to manually fill them with water then wait for the water to filter down then use up the pure water before adding more or risk flooding your counter should the purified chamber overfill. Then you refill the chamber and are back to waiting for water to filter again. My wife was waiting for water 1 to 2 hours a day for pure water. I am a water engineer and was irritated by this deficiency, so I devised a system to control the flow of water in one or both chambers. I also made it easy to connect the filter to any outside water source (no need for a plumber to install) be it pressurized water line or gravity fed whether it be a 5 gallon bucket a 55 gallon barrel or large water storage tanks. Now we never wait for water. It is always there when we need it. And the water comes out of the spout 3 to 5 times faster than it does without our system. We don’t have issues with the filters drying out which for Berkey means that it can mean throwing the fluoride filters away if they are left to run dry. I am working on a system now that will make it so we will never have to clean out the the purified chamber required with all systems. Thanks for taking the time to read this and let me know if this is a topic that would be interesting to you and your readers. Looking forward to hearing from you. Val Johnson wellspringpure.com
Laura London says
Hi Val. I am very interested in the Wellspring Pure I am going to the web site to read more. Thank you for sharing.