How to purify water with your own hands

You'll never guess which one present life will give you at one time or another. By some chance, anyone can find themselves in an unforeseen situation. For example, when there is no drinking water at hand. This could very likely happen if, say, you went to pick mushrooms and got lost. Or you went on a hike and your supply of drinking water ran out.
Finding water shouldn’t be a big problem: rivers, lakes, puddles. You can even dig a small hole and water will collect in it after a while. Even if you boil it, you cannot drink such water. Not only small grains of sand, but most importantly dangerous chemicals and chemicals cannot get caught in them.

Therefore, the best way to purify water is to use a homemade filter.

What do you need to make a filter?

- plastic bottle.
- pebbles.
- sand.
- a piece of cloth or gauze bandage.
- Charcoal.

Cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle. Let's turn the bottle over and start filling. First, put a piece of fabric and sprinkle with pebbles. Then add a layer of sand. We put the fabric, crushed charcoal and the fabric again. It turned out to be a kind of tablet.And then, in reverse order, sand and pebbles. The water purification filter is ready.

A cloth or gauze bandage is used to ensure that all filter materials do not mix.
Pebbles and sand are the main filters for small particles. But charcoal retains most of the chemicals from the water. You can use charcoal from your fire.