Berkey Water Filters

For several years now I've wanted a Berkey Water Filter. My idea is to collect rain water and run it through the Berkey for drinking and cooking. You see, we have a lot of iron in our water. So, it either comes out of the tap orange (heavy iron isn't good for the Berkey), or we use the water softener. Softened water isn't good for the Berkey, either.

Berkey Water Filters claim to be able to clean water from just about any source, like a pond, spring, lake, old well, river or stream. That would make a Berkey a good thing to have in power outages, too!

Do any of my readers have a Berkey? Please tell us about it!