Originally Posted By: BruceZed
Originally Posted By: KenK
In one show they converted a bear barrel into a sand filter to clarify cloudy water. Of course that wouldn't sanitize it, but still interesting.


Sand Filters work well if correctly built. If the water is reasonably clean the Sand Filter will do the same job as a fancy filter.


As the link pointed out, unless it is a long term bio-sand filter, they will not remove bacteria. A micro pore filter will.