Walter filter priming

Priming our berkey's glad we did it at home to gain some experience with the manual system.  Here you see the manual filter (you need to assemble) for the big berkey filters.  The instructions worked for me and I recommend everyone do it at least once before you need it for the experience.  I bought the berkey go for those RV parks that do not have good tasting water (to our taste).  Also in a pinch if no clean water is around we can purify our own in small batches.

It takes a few minutes to get the water coming through the filter, once it starts keep pumping for a minute or two then your filter is primed.

Below the black filter is primed and ready to be inserted in to the berkey go container to start purifying water.

Here we have our berkey go, berkey sport, a zero water pitcher to keep full with our berkey go and a plain plastic pitcher to fill the two berkeys.  I do not need to use the zero but we have it so why not use it as well for its capacity, fits well in the frig.   Please note, I use the 18oz camp cup to fill the berkey go and if I leave the filter in when not in use it protects the plastic filter tip from breaking.

Here I am priming the berkey sport by squeezing a few bottles of water through to prime it for use.  I will take this with me while I am teaching today to see how it goes.

With this years summer hurricane's so many people had no drinking water my interest peaked. So I bought some Sawyer Mini Filters and as you can see along with some small Berkey purifiers.  Will leave at least one in our tow vehicle and one in our go bag.