The Cabin Clean Water Filter is an inexpensive, rapid way to provide safe drinking water to disadvantaged urban or rural communities world wide. The provision of safe drinking water significantly improves health and reduces infant mortality. The filter provides a way for governments to improve the lives of their population in a way no other treatment technology can. Health costs are reduced and quality of life improved. Cholera can be eliminated. There is a natural synergism among government, the private sector or business community and the NGO community.