Fish Filter - Water Purificatiom ?

[NorthernRaider]

I was cleaning my fish out yesterday and i thought to myself, here is a filter with a sponge core and a container of activated charcoal which the water passes through too. Would this be a safe form of purification for drinking i wonder ? It would certainly produce alot of purified water quickly if it safe. (Oh yes it is 240v but i have a 12-240 in the car)

Technically you can adapt an Aquarium filter into a potable water filters using activated charcoal, zeolite, filter matting and if possible topped off with a UV tube light steriliser, HOWEVER you must remember to frequently change the Zeolite and Carbon before it becomes saturated and dumps the removed crap back into the water.

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you can buy the under sink water purifying cartridges from ebay that fit on your cold water inlet, a bit of diy magic with these and these would be ok as this is what there for.

Youd need a bucket with a sand/gravel pre filter system for the collected water to filter through first to remove the bulk of the detritus them gravity feed it into another recepticle.

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Can I just point out that those inline cartridges are NOT water purification filters, they are simply TASTE improvers and they do NOT remove toxins, they are no better or different to the useless Brita filters. It says as much in red writing on the labels in the photos !!!