14 litre- native life in golden brown glaze

• Proudly Australian made and owned - Beechmountain Pottery was started in 1980 by Jon and Judy Durand. Along with local master potters and artists, we have been making handmade stoneware pottery for over 35 years!

Each system is uniquely handmade and decorated in Australia. The Beechmountain Pottery workshop is located in the Gold Coast Hinterland, Queensland. In the early 90's we started making and selling the Water Filtration Systems you see here. These proved to be so effective and popular we decided to put our family name on them, 'Durand Water Filters'. 

• Suitable for use on all alternative and town water supplies - Supplied with world class Doulton filter, this filter will provide 2,000 Litres of clean safe drinking water from all types of water supply, including bore, creek, dam and rain water.

• Made with Lead Free, Non-Toxic Glazes - Our stoneware systems are fired to 1280 degrees centigrade, making them essentially 'vitrified' to last a lifetime. Stoneware will not deteriorate over time, unlike lower fired ceramics or terracotta. Stoneware does not leach any impurities and will keep your water cool naturally.

• Gravity filtration system - Durand Water Filters are gravity fed and do not require any electricity or plumbing, and are NOT a "fixed installation", so they are easy to move and clean.

Durand Water Filter Systems are a healthy, attractive, benchtop, domestic water filter system, ideal for home and the office, that stores cool GREAT tasting drinking water at an affordable price. Producing Clean, Safe Drinking Water for less than 2 cents a litre with NO installation costs.

The 12 Litre "Durand Water Filters" stand approximately 480mm to 500mm high, and 250mm to 270mm wide.

How it works: Simply add water to the filter container, which sits inside the main storage container. Under the force of gravity the water first passes through the micro porous ceramic walls of the filter. The inside of the walls of the Doulton filter are impregnated with silver. The silver acts as a natural biocide to keep the water inside your filter, and also your stored water, pure. Then the water passes through the activated carbon filled core of the filter. From there it drips into the storage container at the bottom. 

 Proudly supplied with:

                    Doulton Supersterasyl Filter 2000 litre

Doulton's Extensive Development Laboratories are continually setting new standards in water quality throughout the world. Their commitment to quality has been demonstrated by achieving ISO 9002* certification, tested and approved by:

• The British Standard 5750
• The World Health Organization
• Department of Health (Toronto, Ontario)
• Water Research Council (London, England)
• University of Arizona (USA)
• Spectrum Labs (Minneapolis, USA)
• WRC (Buckingham Shire, England)
• National Sanitation Foundation (Standards 42 & 53, USA)
• Hyder Labs, Cheshire England
• Loughborough University, England
• Thresh, Beale & Suckling Laboratories, England.
• Clare Microbiological Laboratories, England
• Severn Trent Laboratories, England
• And Many Other Independent Laboratories Worldwide

* ISO, based in Switzerland, is an international agency that set standards for product manufacturing procedures and processes. Doulton is an ISO 9000 accredited company. As such, it undergoes regular audits by this authority in order to retain its accreditation. Doulton customers throughout the world, are therefore guaranteed a consistent supply of first class, quality assured products.

Doulton Filter History

You may associate the name of Royal Doulton with fine tableware and figurines, but do you know how they came to have the word "Royal" associated with their name?

As early as 1827, Henry Doulton developed a ceramic filter to remove bacteria from the contaminated Thames River, to provide safe drinking water. In 1835 Doulton made a gravity fed stoneware water system combined with the ceramic filter, for use by the royal household. By 1862 with the advancement in microbiology Doulton created micro porous ceramic filters capable of removing more than 99% of bacteria.

The tiny pores of the ceramic filter known as depth filtration, make it extremely efficient at removing particulate matter and fine sediment. The tightly packed activated carbon will remove taste, odours and unwanted impurities through a process called adsorption. The ceramic wall of this filter has been impregnated with silver ions to prevent the growth of bacteria in the filter itself and also in the stored water. (The silver is not painted on the inside of the walls like other filters and will not disperse into the filtered water or wear out in 6 months.) Since the beginning of the century Royal Doulton has been a leading name in water filtration, world renowned for high guality and reliability.

For their achievements made in water filtration, Doulton was given the right to use 'Royal' in their name in 1902.