Home made water purifier

Retired, 68 years old, engineer Anton Ivanovitj Reznikova from Russia hasn't lost his creativity. He has now built his own water purifying system inside his small apartment.

Tap water in Russia is pretty dirty but after travelling through this pretty complex system it becomes drinkable.



Fridge magnets to clear the water from metals


Layers of different types of mud


A bottle of millets to give vitamins to the water


The stones at the bottom gives the water minerals


Anton shares his clean water with a neighbor

Here is a video of Anton talking about his system, unfortunately in russian:


Original article in Russian with more pictures

(via boingboing)