Water Purification for Emergency Storage
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chaps23
Jedi Master
There are plenty of filter systems available guys, with a little research you may find that anything with a ceramic/charcoal filtrer will make everything but flourodated water drinkable, problem is it filters everything thats in the water in the first place.... ie the minerals that are actually good for you out too....
Getting a Nikken Pi-Mag water filtration system is an excellent idea, it puts the minerals back into the water that you filter out. but is bulky and you may have to carry it around. but you could have it in a stationary location and simply bottle water from it. (please note that It would be a better idea to drink muddy puddle water over flouridated/ chlorinated poisen). but the choice is yours.
Getting a Nikken Pi-Mag water filtration system is an excellent idea, it puts the minerals back into the water that you filter out. but is bulky and you may have to carry it around. but you could have it in a stationary location and simply bottle water from it. (please note that It would be a better idea to drink muddy puddle water over flouridated/ chlorinated poisen). but the choice is yours.
chaps23 said:
I'm not sure this would always be true. There can be some pretty nasty organisms in stagnant water puddles, muddy or not. Giardia, Cryptosporidium, and so many other critters that can cause great sickness very quickly. I think if you had absolutely no filter at all, adding a few drops of chlorine would not be such a horrid idea under that extreme circumstance. It would however be important to let the chlorine outgas before drinking, as works4dhs mentioned.
I spent the first 20 years of my life drinking chlorinated tap water, unfortunately. However, I am certain that infectious micro-organisms would have far worse side effects, and could even kill you.
chaps23
Jedi Master
I suppose it really depends on what your body is used to. Ethiopeans and Indonesian's have not the luxury of bottled and or filtered water in which case there body's have grown an amazing resistance to most bacteria's. The damage of flouride to the body is harsh and difficult to recover from.
From my above statement I would more than likely boil the water before ingesting, and would probably refrain from any water that contained fecies, oil or any other visable polutants. but a simple muddy non stagnent puddle would be fine. If I could not boil the water I would do it Bare Grills style and drink the water using my backside instead of mouth as our intestines are great filters to bacteria, and the water gets absorbed suprisingly quickly.
Regards,
Brent.
From my above statement I would more than likely boil the water before ingesting, and would probably refrain from any water that contained fecies, oil or any other visable polutants. but a simple muddy non stagnent puddle would be fine. If I could not boil the water I would do it Bare Grills style and drink the water using my backside instead of mouth as our intestines are great filters to bacteria, and the water gets absorbed suprisingly quickly.
Regards,
Brent.
chaps23 said:
Good point, I hadn't considered that. And I don't know why I was so quick to jump to the defense of chlorine, obviously it is also capable of killing people. Probably better to adjust to what is already there (and build natural defenses), instead of adding known poison, I can see the sense of that.
Most interesting method of water consumption, definitely my first time hearing about that. Thanks for responding, after re-reading the entire thread it all makes more sense to me now.
chaps23
Jedi Master
Chlorine will sterilize you to a point where you will be more suseptable to outside viruses and bacteria. it not only attacks the bugs in the water but your body aswell. it essentailly disrupting the natural way of things and prevents your body from toughening up to these things naturally in the first place.
If for the last 20 years you have been drinking chlorinated water... I suggest now is the time to start strengthening your system (or better yet let your system strengthen itself) if we are not bashing it every day with Chlorine it is able to adapt and grow. A question worth spending some time on Do you have any natural mineral springs in your area?
Because you can purchase 20-25LT drums fill em up, should last you about a week of drinking. if you get 2 Drums you will get even longer. Even if it is a 2 hour drive.... Whats your Health worth to you? I use 20ml of coloidal silver to my 25lt and I never gotten ill.
Food for thought.
Best Regards,
Brent.
If for the last 20 years you have been drinking chlorinated water... I suggest now is the time to start strengthening your system (or better yet let your system strengthen itself) if we are not bashing it every day with Chlorine it is able to adapt and grow. A question worth spending some time on Do you have any natural mineral springs in your area?
Because you can purchase 20-25LT drums fill em up, should last you about a week of drinking. if you get 2 Drums you will get even longer. Even if it is a 2 hour drive.... Whats your Health worth to you? I use 20ml of coloidal silver to my 25lt and I never gotten ill.
Food for thought.
Best Regards,
Brent.
chaps23 said:
Luckily I am 32 now, and it was the first 19-20 years of my life in which I drank nothing but chlorinated water. With exception to extreme living situations or circumstances, I have avoided contaminated water as much as possible ever since that time. I've been blessed to be living this year in a mountainous location with a freshly drilled well. It is a bit shallow, and slightly contaminated, so I do use a high quality two chamber filtration system as an additional precaution. But after removing the sulfur and byproducts, it does taste very crisp and fresh!
Thanks for all the advice and encouragement though, I do appreciate that, and those were all great suggestions. I'm a big fan of colloidal silver also, nothing but great results when I've used it, and the other threads here on that topic seem to indicate the same.
chaps23
Jedi Master
Jason (ocean59) said:
That's excellent, you are incredibly blessed, I went ahead and got a reverse osmosis system but realised soon after that the water was basically dead by the time it came out of it. I have noticed great improvements with the natural spring water. contains heaps of minerals Magnesium, Iron, Zinc, sodium, sulpha etc.... all of which can be beneficial in the quantities I'm drinking, its a wonder how we adapted to live drinking empty or near empty water to be honest. some water can be so clean it actually absorbs minerals from your body as you pass it!!! (or so I have read)
Regards,
Brent.
chaps23 said:
Yes, I know someone who can drink water from rivers in West-Africa, which is quite amazing if you know that people wash their clothes and themselves in the water and even urinate in it (I saw that once, but only once and the man I was with was truly shocked that somebody could do such a thing.).
He lives in Europe and told me that whenever he goes back his body has to adapt for a while, but then he is able to drink the water again without falling ill.
I also knew a European woman that lived in South-America a couple of years and did not filter her water, either. She suffered diarrhea and probably cramping for a while and then adjusted.
I was told I could do the same.
Gimpy
The Living Force
Guardian said:chaps23 said:
I have a feeling I might regret this question, but how exactly do you "drink water using your backside?" Is there a special exercise or something like that? Sit in a bucket, hold your nose, and blow air out your mouth until you get the suction going?
Its done via an enema. I wouldn't go that far myself, though I've heard of it being done for people with severe illness or high fever to cool the body down/rehydrate in an emergency.
I don't trust everything I hear Bear Grylls tout on his TV show, for the reason that its a TV show...
Guardian
The Cosmic Force
Gimpy said:
Ohhhhhhhh "Bare Grill" is a person. I was sitting here trying to figure out what a barbeque grill had to do with this process. Propane is a propellent 
It still doesn't make sense to me. As I understand enemas, more is supposed to come out than went in? I don't see how that would be helpful if you're THAT desperate for water. There are LOTS of plants I'm gonna chew for moisture before somehow pumping dirty water up my rear and hoping it stays there long enough to do some good.
I'd suggest folks learn their local leaves, many (in the US) can safely be chewed for fluid in a pinch.
chaps23
Jedi Master
Its simple really,
You get a 1.25Lt or 2Lt bottle fill it up with your water of choice, shove the nozzle up your backside and put pressure on the bottle! apparently half a litre can be absorbed in less than 20Min's! There is even talk of it being able to take salt out of water but I cant find anything concrete. Besides... it beats having diarrhea or poisoning from drinking it the other way. Some of the most harmful of bacteria are efficiently filtered through the intestinal tract.
Food for thought I guess..... If your life depended on it... What would you do???
LOL cracks me up to read these comments, I really dont think its a big stretch from the Coffee Enema.....
You get a 1.25Lt or 2Lt bottle fill it up with your water of choice, shove the nozzle up your backside and put pressure on the bottle! apparently half a litre can be absorbed in less than 20Min's! There is even talk of it being able to take salt out of water but I cant find anything concrete. Besides... it beats having diarrhea or poisoning from drinking it the other way. Some of the most harmful of bacteria are efficiently filtered through the intestinal tract.
Food for thought I guess..... If your life depended on it... What would you do???
LOL cracks me up to read these comments, I really dont think its a big stretch from the Coffee Enema.....
MnSportsman
Jedi
chaps23, "Some of the most harmful of bacteria are efficiently filtered through the intestinal tract."
And some are absorbed..
& I, personally, would not like the result(s).
;)
LOL though, at the latest few posts I read.
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There are many ways to obtain water thru plants/trees, & there are many methods of water extraction from various sources. It is information, that if someone does not have, would always be good knowledge to possess, for everyone. But the act of "Water Purification for Emergency Storage" as the topic title says, leaves us with filtering, distilling, use of chemical treatment, or a combination. Most have been discussed. I am curious to find out what the OP decided to do regarding this discourse. Made any decision, Bill144? Additionally, have any others here done anything regarding this topic since this topic was brought up?
I am curious to see if anyone was helped out from what they have learned here so far.
And some are absorbed..
& I, personally, would not like the result(s).
;)
LOL though, at the latest few posts I read.
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There are many ways to obtain water thru plants/trees, & there are many methods of water extraction from various sources. It is information, that if someone does not have, would always be good knowledge to possess, for everyone. But the act of "Water Purification for Emergency Storage" as the topic title says, leaves us with filtering, distilling, use of chemical treatment, or a combination. Most have been discussed. I am curious to find out what the OP decided to do regarding this discourse. Made any decision, Bill144? Additionally, have any others here done anything regarding this topic since this topic was brought up?
I am curious to see if anyone was helped out from what they have learned here so far.
