Creating potable water after a disaster or when in the wild is critical to personal survival. Particulates and other matter within standing water can be filtered out with the right materials and knowledge.
Instructions
Filtrating Water
1. Find a standing body of water, such as a pond, lake or swimming pool. The water can have plant life or other floating green organic matter on the surface, but avoid waters that have dead animals or fish along the shoreline or within the water itself.
2. Cut bottom off of one of the one-gallon plastic jugs. Keep as much of the walls of the jug intact, try to just remove the flat bottom. Inverted, this cut container will become the "filter funnel."
3. Remove the lid from the cut jug "filter funnel."
4. Open the activate carbon box and fill the mesh bag with carbon.
5. Place the mesh bag with activated carbon in the inverted jug---the handle and lid being down and the cut-out bottom being up. The mesh bag will be inside the jug above the lid.
6. Open the polyester filter material and place it into the jug on top of the mesh bag. Cover the bag completely, gently packing it down. Do not compress the filter material too much.
7. Mark one or more of the clean plastic jugs with large red "X." Use these containers as "catcher" containers---holding filtered water, but not boiled water. Do not drink from these containers. They hold water in the filter process, but are not ready for drinking.
8. Remove the lids from the containers marked "X."
9. Draw a bucket full of standing water.
10. Select one of the "X" containers and place it directly below the "filter funnel."
