Great prepper threads MSD and this is where I am at now, trying to figure out water capture methods, filtration and disinfection.
I have limited fire making and fire fuel resources, so I don't want to deplete those stores in having to boil water, rather to use it for cooking and providing a little candle heat only. However, if I boil foodstuffs in water, then we can also drink that water.
I bought water purification tablets but if TSHTF and lasts for a long time then I will run out very quickly.
I have a well but I will have to hire a well water company to investigate to see if I/they can install a hand pump.
I am storing water but for four people and maybe more to share with neighbors (because it takes a village), I need multiple other methods of water capture that work well.
I just read regular bleach has a shelf life of 6 months. So I'm looking to buy calcium hypochlorite (or 'pool shock' with a 10 year shelf life) where I can make my own bleach to purify water.
https://thesurvivalmom.com/wp-content/up...rifier.pdf
I have been watching prepper videos on solar stills and rainwater capture, which also requires filtration and the rainwater needs purification.
So it looks like I'll need to buy pebbles, gravel stones, sand, activated charcoal, cheesecloth as a first step in filtering any type of water, except distillation from the solar still.
I have a firepit, but what I am reading about wood charcoal is not good, it supposedly adds impurities not takes them away. So I might have to stick with stones, gravel, sand, cloth, grass, pine needles etc.
Any additional advice would be most welcome. Thank you.
I have limited fire making and fire fuel resources, so I don't want to deplete those stores in having to boil water, rather to use it for cooking and providing a little candle heat only. However, if I boil foodstuffs in water, then we can also drink that water.
I bought water purification tablets but if TSHTF and lasts for a long time then I will run out very quickly.
I have a well but I will have to hire a well water company to investigate to see if I/they can install a hand pump.
I am storing water but for four people and maybe more to share with neighbors (because it takes a village), I need multiple other methods of water capture that work well.
I just read regular bleach has a shelf life of 6 months. So I'm looking to buy calcium hypochlorite (or 'pool shock' with a 10 year shelf life) where I can make my own bleach to purify water.
https://thesurvivalmom.com/wp-content/up...rifier.pdf
I have been watching prepper videos on solar stills and rainwater capture, which also requires filtration and the rainwater needs purification.
So it looks like I'll need to buy pebbles, gravel stones, sand, activated charcoal, cheesecloth as a first step in filtering any type of water, except distillation from the solar still.
I have a firepit, but what I am reading about wood charcoal is not good, it supposedly adds impurities not takes them away. So I might have to stick with stones, gravel, sand, cloth, grass, pine needles etc.
Any additional advice would be most welcome. Thank you.