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How To Make A Mobile Water Filter In Real Life

By Cryptic

Let me start off by saying that back in high school, I made this for a science project and got an A+ because I was literally the only person in class who had any idea how to filter and clean water. We could only use things that we could easily find and were numerous. I thought I would put this up incase anyone was interested. This is not the design that is in the game (the scientists are more advanced than I am) but here it is.

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Category: Crafting, Loot, Secrets, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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7 Aug, 2015 @ 11:44am

11 Jun, 2017 @ 8:40pm

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Guide Index

Overview

What You Will Need

Instructions

Completion

Comments

What You Will Need

Empty Water Bottle
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Sand
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Stones
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Charcoal
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Elastic Band (Possibly a rubber band)
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Thin Rags
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Instructions

1: First, you will cut the water bottle in half.

2: Second, you will take the drinking side of the water bottle and put the rag on the drinking nozzle and put the elastic band around that to hold it together.

3: Third, you will put some sand in the modified half of the bottle.

4: Fourth, on top of the sand, you will put crushed charcoal on top of the sand with a few larger chuncks here and there.

5: Fifth, you will put rocks or stones that you can find outside on top of the charcoal.

6: Sixth, you will put a very little bit more sand on top of the rocks.

7: Seventh, you will put the modified portion of the bottle into the bottom half of the bottle so it is sitting over it and the bottom half acts as a cup to catch the water.

8: Eighth, you will pour some water through the filter.

9: Ninth, you will boil the water to take out the remaining bacteria and germs. (Not always necessary)

10: Tenth, enjoy the purified drinking water.

Completion

Now you have crafted a personal mobile water filter in real life. Survival in video games may seem easy. It is much different in real life.

9 Comments

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Cryptic [author] 1 Jul, 2020 @ 4:43pm

Numerous being the keyword above. You'd obviously not want to destroy a useful container for transferring and transporting water unless you had several.

Kikinaak 1 Jul, 2020 @ 4:13pm

Old guide, but...
Dont cut a bottle in half. Thats a useful container you have just made useless.
Use birch bark, a plastic sheet, or anything you can make a cone or funnel shape out of, and add your filter layers to that. The more you can repeat sets of layers, the better.
In 99% of real world situations you would need to do something like this, boiling is not optional. If you have no way of boiling the water, leave it in the bottle in full sun for 6-8 hours to purify. Longer if cloudy.
Use the intact bottle to store the purified water and drink from.

Cryptic [author] 11 Jun, 2017 @ 8:40pm

I hope so.

Marquise* 20 Sep, 2015 @ 5:12pm

You might help a lot of aspirant survivalists here!

Cryptic [author] 20 Sep, 2015 @ 9:06am

That is exactly like in my desgin above.

smoken 20 Sep, 2015 @ 8:01am

Heard that in India, they would put fabric (forget which kind) over the water jugs when down at the river. The fibers would prevent a lot of the bacteria from getting into the jug.

Marquise* 9 Aug, 2015 @ 7:12pm

REALLY IMPORTANT!

Cryptic [author] 9 Aug, 2015 @ 2:20pm

Fixed, thanks.

alex / my 📱 is my 📡 9 Aug, 2015 @ 2:13pm

The third step has a typo: I think you meant to say "sand" when you actually said "same".

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