Emergency Siphon Filters

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Want an everyday drinking water filter that doubles as an effective siphon filter during emergencies?

Order the slimline version of our Model 77 Countertop filter and select the Super Sterasyl Candle as the standard cartridge. When checking out, request a free siphon conversion kit.

Total cost: $77.

Go here for instructions that show the unit in action as a siphon filter.

Go here for original research from Pure Water Gazette regarding the effectiveness of ceramic and carbon filters at bacteria removal.

Featuring Doulton Ceramic Filters that Remove Pathogens

The surge of interest in filters to provide safe drinking water during emergencies has led to a lot of misunderstanding about water purification. One major misconception is that you have to buy a $300 gravity filter or costly miniature hand-pump system to purify water.

Siphoning, an eons-old trick, will drive a water filter as well as a pump, and a simple siphon can work much better than an expensive commercial gravity filter. With our simple equipment, you can have a siphon filter that will make plenty of biologically safe drinking and food-preparation water for several people from the grossest puddles of water. A siphon filter works much faster than a canister-type gravity filter, and once you get it going, it keeps on producing water without a lot of huffing and puffing and pumping and complaining on your part. Any of the simple, inexpensive filters described below will outperform a miniature pump filter or an expensive gravity pot.

Before you read about the products below, you should understand that there are several ways to deal with bacteria in water. The common way that municipal water systems use is to kill them with chemicals—most notably chlorine and chloramines. In some parts of the world iodine is used to kill bacteria in water. Bacteria can also be killed with ozone or rendered harmless with ultraviolet light.

Since bacteria have a physical size, they can also be filtered from water if the filter is tight enough. Ceramic filters have been used for almost two centuries to reliably remove bacteria from water. In fact, as early as 1827 the founder of the Doulton company, the world's oldest water filter maker (see Doulton History), was using a ceramic filter to make the highly polluted water of the Thames river safe to drink.

The filters we offer on this page consist of a ceramic filter made by the Doulton company (often called a "candle" because of its shape) and a simple adapter consisting of a threaded fitting and a hose which we have devised to make it easy to siphon water through the filter. As water is pulled through the candle, the straining action of the filter produces a lab-certified removal of e.Coli, Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera), Shingella, Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid), Klebsiella Terrigena, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and other biological contaminants.

The ceramic does not remove chemicals or improve the taste and odor of water. To do that, we offer a couple of optional models that add standard filter carbon to the ceramic. Carbon is the most commonly used removal medium for almost all chemicals. But keep in mind that these are small filters and they are not a substitute for a large, undersink drinking water system. You can expect reduction of general trace contaminants, but small filters of this type should not be regarded as a long-term solution for, say, water that is heavily contaminated by pesticides or industrial chemicals. If used with chlorinated water, the carbon filters offered below will remove the chlorine and its taste.

This unit is subject to our volume discount: 10% off two, 15% off three or more.

Sterasyl Siphon Filter

Our simplest unit consists of our adapter and a Doulton Sterasyl candle. It removes pathogens. Operation is simple: Put the candle into a container of the water to be purified, wait until it sinks (indicating that it is completely saturated), then suck through the tube until you get water in your mouth. When you taste water, lower the tube to a level below the container and water will continue to flow. Catch the purified water in a second container.

This unit has a long life expectancy because the ceramic can be rinsed and wiped cleaned when sediment collects on the surface.

Part # sk101

Sterasyl Siphon Filter

$45.00

(Call to order.)

This unit is subject to our volume discount: 10% off two, 15% off three or more.

Sterasyl Inline GAC Siphon Filter

This unit consists of an Omnipure inline granular carbon (GAC) filter attached by a tubing adapter to a Doulton Sterasyl candle. Water flows through the ceramic, then through the GAC inline. The resulting unit is a longer range taste/odor filter with the advantage that the carbon filter can be replaced at half the cost of the Super Sterasyl.

The GAC filter attaches with quick connect fittings, so replacement is very easy.

Part # sk103

Sterasyl + Inline GAC Siphon Filter

$61.00

(Call to order.)

Replacement Cartridge List

Keep in mind that the filter cartridges used in the systems described are identical to those used in the expensive pour-through models like the famous “Big Berky.” The Sterasyl is a silver-impregnated very tight ceramic shell. The Super Sterasyl is also silver-impregnated and is identical except that it has a granular carbon core. (Silver is included to prevent bacteria “grow through.”) Both cartridges are laboratory certified removers of E.Coli, Vibrio Cholerae (Cholera), Shingella, Salmonella Typhi (Typhoid) Klebsiella Terrigena, Cryptosporidium, Giardia, and other biological contaminants. The carbon-core version also is a good taste/odor enhancer and a reasonably good chemical filter. Can you drink pond water filtered through a Doulton candle? Absolutely!

Description

Price

Doulton Sterasyl Candle

A sub-micron, self-sterilizing ceramic candle. Strains out cysts and bacteria to assure potable water.

Type	Ceramic
Media	Silver Impregnated Ceramic

$36.00

Part # fc700

10" Inline GAC Cartridge
(1/4" Quick Connect Fittings)

A 10" granular activated coconut shell carbon filter for chemical/chlorine reduction and taste/odor improvement, with 1/4" Quick Connect fittings.

Type	Media
Media	Coconut Shell Carbon

$15.00

Part # if001

Siphon Filter Replacement Parts & Pieces

Siphon Filter Adapter

Consists of the tubing and elbow fitting needed to siphon through a Sterasyl ceramic candle.

$7.00

Part # sk001

(Call to order.)

Siphon Filter Adapter, Inline Filter Extension

Consists of the tubing and “plug-in elbow” needed to extend the siphon filter through a connected inline filter.

$7.00

Part # sk003