Best water filters for pumping out of murray

BAILEY · Veteran Member

Best water filters for pumping out of murray

Dougwe · Chief one feather

B.E.S.T. Filters should do the job but I actually use a triple system overall. Firstly through a sediment filter second through a carbon filter then into aluminium tent. Water is clear for cleaning and washing. I then have a carbon filter under sink for drinking water via a drinking water tap. No taste and nice and clear.

I have used both systems from the Murray River and others and also lakes. Also bore water. The triple would be a better choice by a bit IMO.

Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

Peter_n_Margaret · Senior Member

10 inch 5um sediment filter followed by 10 inch 0.5um active carbon block filter.
Under $100 for filters and housing.
Change the sediment filters regularly (when they get too dirty). They cost from $2 each depending on who you know.
The carbon filter will cost $30-$50 each. Even in the Murray they should last a few months if you do the sediment filtration well.

Forget "BEST". Seriously over priced and you throw away the housing to replace the element. Some have no proper specifications.
Cheers,
Peter

-- Edited by Peter_n_Margaret on Saturday 3rd of August 2024 10:20:43 PM

Aussie1 · Guru

Probably would be no good in the Seine, it's beyond help !!

Dick0 · Guru

BAILEY wrote:
Best water filters?

If it is a tap to den filter you can get a caravan specific inline hose filter.

If it is a sink drinking water filter, Dougwe has commented and Bunnings have those.

If it is river or lake water filtering, that has already been commented here for three stage filtering.

Peter_n_Margaret · Senior Member

Water from the River should also be chlorinated for biological protection.
10-20ml of unscented household bleach (6% sodium hypochlorite) per 100L of water. Add the chlorine first and filter it just before use. The carbon block filter will remove any left before consumption. There is no point filtering as you fill the tank. Do it just before the outlet tap.
Cheers,
Peter

Brodie Allen · Guru

Sediment filtration is a small part of the protection needed.

My best recommendation is that you add Hydrogen peroxide to the tank when filling.

This removes odours, taste and more importantly pathogens and viruses etc.
e-coli isn't an unexpected inclusion.

And leaves no taste or smell of its own. And in the low concentrations used,
sterilises your filter and is harmless when ingested.

I buy 50% conc in bulk, but online be careful with concentration percentages quoted.
Hard to overdose so give the tank a good dose. See google for suggested dilution
rates and if the water is pretty awful, (and it will be) err on the high side.

I don't use Chlorine - it stinks, leaves chlorates as residue and kills the charcoal
in the filter very quickly.

And murders your coffee very soon as the filter quickly becomes debilitated.

B

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Saturday 17th of August 2024 10:07:04 AM

Peter_n_Margaret · Senior Member

The purpose of sediment filtration is to extend the life of the more expensive carbon filter by removing much of the particulate matter before it gets to the carbon filter.
Chlorine is the treatment choice of 99.9% of town water supplies world wide. It is highly effective and very cheap.
Chlorine naturally breaks down and disappears. A carbon block filter removes any that remains. If it is spoiling your coffee, you are doing something very wrong.

Cheers,

Peter

Whenarewethere · Guru

Peter_n_Margaret wrote:
If it is spoiling your coffee, you are doing something very wrong.

Well over a decade ago we started getting crap tasting water. Had already been in the building over a decade.

Eventually we had enough & installed a 4 stage water filter. Tea started tasting good again (also coffee drinkers).

About two years later we found out the Water Board sold off the land at the top of the hill (my personal speculation is so senior entities got bonuses).

No more cistern to remove various impurities. They now pump the water directly to our suburb.

Also noticed water pressure was since direct pumping a lot less.

Brodie Allen · Guru

You nailed it, Peter.

CHEAP

And there are residues as compared with hydrogen peroxide.

Big difference between chlorine and chlorine Dioxide.

Chlorine dioxide I would agree with you but the cost element rules this out?

B

Hydrogen Peroxide:

Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful and common household sanitiser and bleaching agent. In higher concentrations it is used by some municipal water treatments as an effective pre-oxidant to improve water quality by removing iron, manganese, sulphides, and cyanides, controlling taste and odour, or assisting in the oxidation of organic and inorganic pollutants.

It is also used as a disinfectant, an antiseptic in medical settings, a bleaching agent in the paper and textile industries, a solution for treating wastewater and industrial effluent, and as an oxygen source in certain environments.

Interestingly, hydrogen peroxide is a faster, more versatile, and more effective disinfectant than chlorine at a wider pH range. It decomposes into oxygen and water, and unlike chlorine it leaves no chemical residues.

However, hydrogen peroxide is considerably more expensive than chlorine and it doesnt have a lasting residual. For these reasons and others, as well discuss later, the use of hydrogen peroxide to treat drinking water treatment is generally less common than other disinfection methods.

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Sunday 18th of August 2024 08:43:06 AM

-- Edited by Brodie Allen on Sunday 18th of August 2024 09:09:41 AM