Exhibit 5.01


                                  December 27, 1996




          United States Filter Corporation
          40-004 Cook Street
          Palm Desert, California 92211

          Ladies and Gentlemen:

               I am Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to United
          States Filter Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
          "Company"), and have acted as counsel to the Company in
          connection with the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (the
          "Registration Statement"), filed by the Company on December 27,
          1996, with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the
          Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to an aggregate
          of up to 2,043,773 shares (the "Selling Stockholder's Shares") of
          the Company's Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, that may be
          offered or sold from time to time by the selling stockholders
          identified in the Registration Statement.  

               I am familiar with the Registration Statement and have
          reviewed the Company's Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws,
          each as amended and restated.  I have also examined such other
          public and corporate documents, certificates, instruments and
          corporate records, and such questions of law, as I have deemed
          necessary for purposes of expressing an opinion on the matters
          hereinafter set forth.  In all examinations of documents,
          instruments and other papers, I have assumed the genuineness of
          all signatures on original and certified documents and the
          conformity to original and certified documents of all copies
          submitted to me as conformed, photostatic or other copies.

               On the basis of the foregoing, I am of the opinion that the
          Selling Stockholder's Shares have been validity issued and are
          fully paid and non-assessable.

               I consent to the filing of this opinion as Exhibit 5.01 to
          the Registration Statement and to the use of my name in the
          Prospectus forming a part thereof under the caption "Validity of
          Common Stock".

                                        Yours truly,


                                        /s/ Damian C. Georgino