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There is such an old book called Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cookbook, released back in 1909. In fact, it's a collection of tips on housekeeping + cookbook. In addition to thousands of "old school" Life hacking, and it has a way to filter the rainwater coming from the drainage system.





In those days were used for the storage of liquids including wooden barrels, but in our reality this wondrous little thing may be able to replace the plastic container. However, fans will have to find the decor is a wooden barrel. The principle of filtering in any case does not change, and we are interested in it.
Instructions
-Berёm New wooden barrel.
-sets It at some distance from the ground by placing a barrel of bricks or stones.
-sets Valve at the bottom of the barrel.
-Montiruem Solid partition into the barrel (as a preferred material as wood) at a height of about 10 cm from the bottom.
-Do The partition large number of small holes, then sheltering her water tight cloth.
-Now You need to make the "heart" - the right filter "puff": first, carefully pour a layer of pebbles net thickness of about 10 cm. Above him do a layer of pure river sand and gravel is about the same thickness. Next comes a layer of large (about the size of peas) granular carbon. The ideal is charcoal made from solid maple.



-Dosypaem Coal in a barrel, taking into account that it will fit in one more 10-cm layer of pebbles, but before you make a final layer, slightly tamped content.
-When 4-layer filter is ready, cover it with a cloth on top of another. This painting can be replaced when dirty, and the filter is recommended to update every spring and autumn.



As you can see, this manual is intended for sufficiently large capacity, but if you want you can make a compact filter, even from a flower pot, following the same procedure as creating filter layers.
In the original article says that resulting from such filtering water is safe to drink, but in this situation we would recommend not to test your stomach and immune system strength without due cause.



Source: lifehacker.ru