When I was a kid, we'd go camping, and we had these water filters that you would pump water through, and they would filter it.
It was ceramic, and I think it was the same idea, but we used a pump to force the water through (like a bicycle pump).
There is a company[1] in Indonesia that actually makes very nice versions of this tech.
Ceramic filters are very common in Brazil, used in clay recipients which also keep the water cool even in summer without spending energy.
https://g1.globo.com/saude/noticia/2026/03/14/filtro-de-barr...