The Faithful Filter

The 3 stage filter in our kitchen does a mighty work every day. Nigerian water comes with all sorts of impurities and problems. The Church has similar problems world wide with water. Our friends, Stanley and Nancy Williams in the Ukraine have the same or a similar filter. Every liter of water we drink, cook with, brush our teeth with or rinse our dishes with comes through the filter. The Church found this product in their search and it seems to work well. Tap water pressure, when there is water, is similar to home. When water goes through the filter, you get a very small stream and very little pressure due to the density and the three stages of the filtration system.

Each filter gets changed at different intervals because of where they sit in the filtration process. The first filter the water enters, is on the left (when we get the picture to post, you'll be able to see the 3 different filters) it gets changed every two months. The middle filter gets replaced every 4 months and the last filter to the right is changed annually. The cartridges cost different amounts. The annual filter is over $50 dollars, so the Mission doesn't keep a large back stock.

The system works very well. For drinking, we go one step further and bring each liter we are going to drink to a boil, and then it goes into the fridge for cooling. Part of every day's work, is to boil the water we will be drinking the next day or two. If we have busy days coming up, we double up and boil in the morning and at night. With the loss of water a reality, most days, we keep lots of it on hand.