[badgerstatevolunteers] Re: Water Purification
- From: lomax <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:56:37 -0500
The plastic works fine....the real point here is 'knowledge', although a
filter/purifier would be the method of choice, if it were to break you have
other options. Like fire itself, you should know and carry 5 ways to fire.
In survival you'll find that; "...too much information is not enough", I
hear that Murphy likes to go camping too.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Joe <virtualadonis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have not done my homework on the sunlight option lomax but I think you
> would need glass which would make it unpractical for people on the move. Not
> sure the ultraviolet light would make it through even clear plastic well
> enough to get the job done.
>
> From what I know about fire it will purify everything between boiling and
> filtering, but as lomax said inconvenient. The tablets would be just as
> effective and much easer.
>
> SPIKE
>
> *From:* lomax <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Monday, March 14, 2011 6:38 AM
> *To:* badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Subject:* [badgerstatevolunteers] Re: Water Purification
>
> The knowledge is necessary, equipment failures can happen, but me
> personally will not be without a filter/purifier. Therer is a method to
> sterilize water using sunlight, fill clear plastic water bottles 75% full
> from source, shake vigorously, this oxegenates the water, then fill bottles
> remainder. Lay in the sun, preferebly on a reflective surface for 6 hours.
> If it's cloudy, 2 days. If it's raining it does not work, collect the
> rainwater.
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:08 PM, kevin Joyner <joynerkev@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> As much as I am all for learning how to do things with what we have in
>> nature, a good water purifier is something that is just awesome. Those
>> prices are pretty much what I would expect for a good water purifier. Those
>> are good finds Joe.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Shawn Wilkerson <tatz1977@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> but before boilin ... charco and sand its easy and cheap.....
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On *Sun, 3/13/11, lomax <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: lomax <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [badgerstatevolunteers] Re: Water Purification
>>> To: badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 7:01 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> Boiling water doesn't "purify" everything, and somewhat time consuming
>>> and real hard to do from a canoe, but works fine in a lot of situations.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Nathan C Golding
>>> <goldingn@xxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=goldingn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> What no fancy gadegets or things that are dangerous were is the fun in
>>> that. I guess we coulg go low tech and take the fire option. lol
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Shawn Wilkerson"
>>> <tatz1977@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tatz1977@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>> To:
>>> badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 6:09:28 PM
>>> Subject: [badgerstatevolunteers] Re: Water Purification
>>>
>>> dont turn away from fire its cheap but one of best ways to purifi .......
>>>
>>> --- On Sun, 3/13/11, lomax
>>> <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: lomax
>>> <chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=chac2ook@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> >
>>> Subject: [badgerstatevolunteers] Re: Water Purification
>>> To:
>>> badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=badgerstatevolunteers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 5:49 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, sounds good....this is the one tool that I recomend to not be cheap
>>> on.....water is life!!!!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Joe <
>>> virtualadonis@xxxxxxxxxxx<http://us.mc1617.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=virtualadonis@xxxxxxxxxxx>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is a lot of money but check out everything it does. 13,000 gal, 97%
>>> of all radio activity wow. How confident would you be on a SHTF hike out?
>>> The replacement cartridge is high too but if one had the money it would be
>>> nice to have. For $500 one could have safe water for what 2 or 3 years. I
>>> will get this in the future.
>>> http://www.interamer.net/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=453
>>>
>>> For now I have my eye on the Katadyn Combi Microfilter. Again a little
>>> pricey $180 but I get the field cleanable ceramic .2 micron filter that last
>>> 13,000 gal w/replacement cost $180 and the optional activated carbon filter
>>> for chemicals w/ replacement cartridge only $30. I think chemicals are a
>>> real problem in most populated areas, and certainly will be after the SHTF
>>> hike out.
>>>
>>> What do you all think?
>>>
>>> SPIKE
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Kevin J
>> ====================
>> “Far Better it is to Dare Mighty Things than to take rank with those poor,
>> timid spirits Who know Neither Victory nor Defeat.”
>> Theodore Roosevelt
>>
>> "I was not delivered unto this world in defeat,
>> nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a
>> sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I
>> am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep
>> with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep
>> and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let
>> them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure
>> is not my destiny.
>>
>>
>>
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