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I knew about VITA, but had not seen the old books Peregrino provided the link to. Looks like a great read, well done!
Personally, if I were in that situation, I would look to set up a multi stage system (probably in the ubiquitous 5 gallon buckets) with the water being poured through a cloth or paper filter to catch all of the big chunks, into a layered sand and charcoal filter in the first bucket with holes in the bottom dumping into a cleaner bucket with the ceramic filter in the bottom that fed into a final stage, where I would consider adding a hypochlorite (powdered pool chlorine solution) treatment, depending on a good look at what bugs, if any, made it that far.
A few minutes with a good welder/carpenter/fabricator could probably yield a nice rack or stand for the four buckets, the last bucket (as supplied by the filter manufacturer) has a spigot on the side for dispensing.
All of this, minus the ceramic filters and HTH, should be available at almost any remote site, produce a reasonable quantity of treated water for two people to drink and cook with, and would be easy to maintain in the boonies.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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