How Berkey® Natural Water
Purifiers Operate
For generations, health-conscious people around the
world have recognized that the foundation to a healthy life and healthy body is
clean, fresh drinking water. This
important essential element is the basis for enjoying your longest, healthiest
life. No amount of vitamins or supplements can substitute for the vital
life-sustaining properties found in nourishing, healthful drinking water. It is
truly the foundation of life.
To use, water is poured into the
upper chamber. Gravity draws this water through the exclusive purification
elements where contaminates are captured on and within theses micro-porous
elements and are separated from the water. The purified water then collects in
the lower chamber where it can be drawn through the spigot. What’s more, Berkey®
elements are re-cleanable and can be used over and over again.
Purification
vs. Pathogenic removal
The Berkey Go Kit™ is a true gravity fed
"purifier". Below is an explanation of the difference between
"Purification" and "Pathogenic removal":
To claim
Pathogenic bacterial "removal" one must demonstrate: 99.99%
reduction.
To claim
"purification" one must demonstrate: 99.99999% reduction.
The
Berkey Light™ has demonstrated: >99.9999999% reduction.
In fact,
we tested the Berkey Light™ with the maximum pathogenic contamination
levels that can be produced in a laboratory. When contamination levels exceed
one billion pathogens per liter of water (10,000 times the density of
contamination used in the standard test protocol for bacteriological removal)
they become too numerous to count (TNTC). Such contamination levels are
referred to as "lawn growth". Under normal testing protocol; one
pathogenic organism is tested at a time. However, we had the laboratory mix
together a soup of three separate pathogenic lawn growth cultures. We then
tested the system under this extreme contamination level and absolutely no pathogens
were able to make it through the purification elements. We then had the
laboratory incubate the water and nothing grew. We then had them view the
effluent (filtered water) under an electron microscope and not even
in-viable (dead) microbes were detectable. Nothing was present but pure
H2O.
The revolutionary Berkey Go Kit™
self-sterilizing and re-cleanable filter purify water by
removing pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites entirely and by extracting
harmful chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, VOCs, organic solvents, radon
222 and trihalomethanes. They also reduce nitrates, nitrites, and unhealthy
minerals such as lead and mercury.
Sport Berkey®
The
Portable Water Purifier
The Sport Berkey® Portable
Water Purifier is the ideal personal protection traveling companion -
featuring the IONIC ADSORPTION MICRO FILTRATION SYSTEM. The theory
behind this innovation is simple. The bottle's filter is designed to remove
and/or dramatically reduce a vast array of health-threatening contaminants from
questionable sources of water, including remote lakes and streams, stagnant
ponds and water supplies in foreign countries where regulations may be
sub-standard at best.
The Sport Berkey®
Portable Water Purifier offers a convenient and portable filtration system
using medical grade technology.
Care and Use
Fill
the Sport Berkey® Portable Water Purifier with water, screw
on cap and tighten securely to eliminate leaks. Flush water through filter by
pulling down lever, so that straw is exposed, and squeeze water through filter
& out the straw. Repeat this flushing process twice before drinking. This
removes excess process dust from the filter. After 2 flushes, rinse the bottle
& cap. Your filter bottle is now ready for use. Enjoy!
Maintenance
and Storage
The Sport Berkey®
Portable Water Purifier has a shelf life of 50 years. When the filter
system will not be used for an extended period, flush the unit with a
chlorinated solution of 1/4 tsp. per one half gallon of water. Allow to dry
thoroughly with cap removed. Re-assemble and stow. Do not allow filter to
freeze, do not place in microwave oven and do not run hot water through the
filter.
Note: All contaminants that this filter has the ability to
remove or reduce may not necessarily be in the user's water supply.
Note:
If using a source of water that might contain extreme bacteriological or viral
contamination, it is recommended that two drops of plain chlorinated bleach or
iodine be added to each refill before filtering. This will kill minute
pathogens such as viruses. The disinfectant will then be filtered from the
water entirely removing its odor, color and taste.
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