THE BERKEY LIGHT SYSTEMS ARE MADE IN THE USA AND ARE BPA FREE.

Element options are....

system with 2 black berkey elements...........$209.00

system with 4 black berkey elements...........$304.00

system with 4 CERAMIC super sterasyl elements $304.00

The ceramic elements for the Berkey Light system are 9 inch.

When you choose other options, the drop down will show the added amount to the original price of $209.00.

THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE TALKS MOSTLY ABOUT THE BLACK BERKEY ELEMENTS. TO READ ABOUT THE CERAMIC ELEMENTS, GO TO THE CERAMIC ELEMENT PAGE LISTED IN THIS CATEGORY.

This is a 4 hole system. This picture shows how the Black Berkey purification elements are able to remove red food coloring from the water. Click the inset picture to see how the PF2 and Black Berkey elements hook together.

Constructed of a shatter resistant, high impact strength plastic that is BPA (bisphenal-A) FREE, the system comes complete with two Black Berkey purification elements and base. This system has a storage capacity of about 2.75 gallons and when in use it stands 26.5 inches height with a diameter of 9. The system stands 21 inches when used without the base. Configured with two Black Berkey purification elements the system can purify over 4 Gallons per hour.

The Berkey Light system is designed for use during travel, outdoor activities and during unexpected emergencies. This powerful system purifies both treated water and untreated raw water from such sources as remote lakes, streams, stagnant ponds and water supplies in foreign countries, where regulations may be substandard at best. Perfect for outdoor activities and a must in hostile environments where electricity, water pressure or treated water may not be available. The Berkey water purifiers do not safe guard fully against all viruses which can be easily eliminated by other means such as boiling, or chemical or ultra violet light treatment. The chemicals such as chlorine that you use might use to kill off the viruses can then be removed by the Berkey system. The Berkey systems with the Black Berkey elements and or the lower PF2 elements will stop bacteria, parasites, and many harmful chemicals and toxins as well as some viruses.

Easy Setup and Simple Installation: The Berkey Light system sets up in minutes. Simply prime and screw in the purification elements and spigot, snap the chambers and base together and you are ready to purify your water.

The shatter resistant and virtually unbreakable Berkey Light system is made of a high impact strength, non BPA copolyester. The Berkey light system does not leach foul tasting plasticizers into your water and will not retain foul tastes and odors from waterborne contaminants.

The revolutionary Berkey Light and cleanable purification elements purify water by removing pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites entirely and by extracting harmful chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, VOCs, organic solvents, radon 222 and trihalomethanes. They also reduce nitrates, nitrites, sediment and unhealthy minerals such as lead and mercury.

So powerful, this system is able to remove red food coloring from water without removing the beneficial minerals your body needs. Virtually no other system can duplicate this performance. The transparent chamber provides for an easy view of water levels.

WHY BERKEY WATER PURIFIERS? Bottled water is notorious for being on the list of "what not to do" for the planet. Future civilizations will look back on our time and wonder in disbelief why we pumped water out of one part of the planet, encased it in plastic and burned up many nonrenewable resources to bring it to another part of the planet for people to drink when they had the means to clean their own water where they lived. A Berkey water purifier from ShaneShop.net gives you the ability to easily clean and bottle your own water, as well as be prepared for an emergency that shuts down the water utility.

Put it in your table or counter top, pour water in the top and it comes out clean and fresh. No plug ins, no batteries, no pumps or pipes needed. The Berkey system cleans water for less money than you can buy bottled water. No more lugging water from the store into the house. No more plastic in the landfill from millions of water bottles. One $99.00 set of Black Berkey elements can clean 6000 gallons of water right there in your home. It is cheaper in the long run. If you don't believe that, figure up how much 6000 gallons of your favorite bottled water will cost you. The Berkey cleaned water will be cleaner than bottled water. It will be fresher than the bottled water. And you will not be filling up the landfill with plastic bottles and caps. You will not require semi trucks to haul the bottled water to the store which will reduce air pollution.

Maybe you are going camping or preparing for an emergency situation and want to be able to make your water safe to drink. Maybe you want your treated tap water to taste better and be free of treatment chemicals, health threatening pollutions, hard to kill parasites and organisms like cryptosporidium and toxins that water treatment plants can sometimes miss. Maybe you have an illness like chronic fatigue syndrome that makes you unable to tolerate the chemicals found in your tap water. Either way, the Berkey Water Purifiers using the Black Berkey elements will do the job. And if you add on a set of PF2 elements to the bottom of the Black Berkey elements, you will have one very powerful water purification system that does not use electricity, batteries and does not rely on the water company to be operational. No household should be without a Berkey Water purification system. There is just no excuse not to have one. Here are some of the nasty things the Berkey Water Purifiers using the Black Berkey elements remove from your drinking water......

Pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites removed to non-detectable levels.....Ecoli-Klebsiella-Pseudomonas Aeruginosa-Giardia-Cryptosporidium-

Trihalomethanes removed to non-detectable levels...... Bromodichloromethane-Bromoform-Chloroform-Dibromochloromethane

Radiologicals removed to non-detectable levels...Radon 222

Inorganic minerals removed to non-detectable levels..... Chlorine Residual

Heavy metals reduced by up to 95%....... Lead-Cadmium-Aluminum-Mercury-Chromium-Copper

Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) removed to non-detectable levels......Alachlor-Ethylene Dibromide-Atrazine-Heptachlor-Benzene-Heptachlor Epoxide-Carbofuran-Hexachlorobutodiene-Carbon Tetrachloride-Hexachlorocyclopentadiene-Chlorine-Lindane, Methoxychlor-Chlorobenzene-MTBE-Chloroform-Pentachlorophenol-2,4-D-Simazine-DBCP-Styrene-p-Dichlorobenzene-1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane-Dichlorobenzene-Tetrachloroethylene-1, 1-Dichloroethane-Toluene-1, 2-Dichloroethane-2,4,5-TP (Silvex)-1, 1-Dichloroethylene-1,2,4-trichlorobenzene-cis-1, 2-Dichloroethylene-1,1,1-trichloroethane-Trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene-1,1,2-trichloroethane-1, 2-Dichloropropane-Trichloroethylene-cis-l,3-Dichloropropylene-Xylene-Dinoseb-m-Xylene-Endrin-p-Xylene-Ethylbenzene

ABOUT VIRUSES- The Black Berkey element will stop the viruses known as MS2 and FR coliphage. Viruses are crazy critters that can cause us plenty of suffering. Generally, in order to have viruses in your water, you would be going out and getting that water from some pretty nasty sources. You probly wouldn't get water from nasty sources and run it through your Berkey water system unless you were desperate for water in a disaster situation. The Berkey system does not claim to stop viruses outside of the two mentioned above. The reason viruses are harder to stop than bacteria, parasites, or things like crypto is because viruses are much smaller and able to slip through some extremely dense elements. The best way to stop a virus in water is to kill it with heat or chemicals, or zap it with a UV light like the Aquastar Plus i sell, in order to kill its reproductive DNA. Chlorine will kill viruses in water. But chlorine can take up to 4 hours to kill crypto. The Berkey system stops crypto because crypto is bigger in size than viruses, but chlorine or UV light does nothing to take out sediment and chemical pollution the way a Berkey water system does. The Berkey system is good at cleaning up your city, well or rain water. In an emergency situation where you might get your water from virus contaminated sources, the Berkey system is a powerful tool in your safe water arsenal along with other tools. If you suspect viruses in your water you can use chemical treatment, heat or an ultra violet light and then use the Berkey system to rid the water of all the other nasty stuff you do not want to drink. Black Berkey purification and British Berkefeld filtration systems are an integral part of an ideal solution for treating contaminated water supplies. The accepted standard for using chlorine to kill waterborne viruses is by adding 8 drops of straight chlorine bleach (unscented) to 1 gallon of water. For good measure the recommendation is often made to use 16 drops per gallon and then let stand for about 1 hour. Much of the chlorine will vaporize. But what if you don't want to drink what is left of that chlorine? Black Berkey elements remove the chlorine from the treated water after the chlorine has completely killed any viruses present. You're left with only what you want...clean, safe, great tasting water.

Why make your body contend with pollution found in the water you drink and the air you breathe? Remove the pollution first.