Choosing a Berkey Water Filter System

The best guideline for choosing which size of Berkey Water Filter System is appropriate for you is that bigger is usually better providing you have the space for it. This simply means that it’s more convenient to have a larger system as you won’t have to fill it as often. Since the higher water volume in the upper chamber increases the pressure upon the filters the water, therefore, flows through faster. The differences in cost between the various models are minimal when you consider that you will be using the same model for 10-20+ years.

As has already been mentioned, all the Berkey Water Filter systems come standard with 2 upper chamber Black Berkey Elements. The filtration quality will not be improved by increasing the number of filters used in the upper chamber, but it will increase the speed of filtration and the volume of water that can be filtered. For instance, by increasing the number of Black Berkey elements from 2 to 4, the filtration speed and volume of water that can be filtered will approximately double from 22,700 total litres to 45,400 total litres.