Perpping Mentality

[Arzosah]

Thank heavens ... I'd stopped posting.

Totally agree about water - I have some stores (though so recently that I haven't needed to rotate them yet - thats coming up next month) - but not very much. You *can't* store enough water for months and months when you live in an ordinary town in an ordinary house ... so after a week's supply of water (for me), there comes water treatment - chlorine tablets, the makings of two expedient water filters (big 2 litre bottles, sand and pure charcoal), and a Katadyn mini filter.

Other storage - my water butts leak at the tap attachment they're not much use yet. But I have two plastic dustbins that are unused, which *could* be used to store water, if I had notice that I needed it. And the ever present wheely bins - I disinfected one recently, thinking of this very thing. And thats one of the things about genuine prepper mentality - a bit of flexibility. And definitely using one item for several functions.

In the area I live in now, as opposed to where I used to live, there are lots of little streams, one only a few hundred yards from my house. Though there's quite a drop - so I need a siphon, maybe with a pump attached? I wouldn't really like to suck on it to get it going.

There's prepper mentality, and prepper knowledge - becoming a prepper is very likely to wake you up to the whole issue of water, its so much in the background of our lives, its very hard to bring it to the foreground.

[Yorkshire Andy]

Is it a plastic screw in tap? Google PTFE tape its about £1 a roll from most diy stores several wraps round the tap threads and screw it in..... Or hawk white aka boss white make plumbers joint compound smea it on the thread and sxrew in

[Decaff]

This was a good posting, shall we get back to it??

I think to start with its overwhelming as you are aware of more and more "stuff" that you didn't think about before e.g I didn't think of water, not at all!! Shocking I know but being on here has opened my eyes big time to things I would not have thought of until I needed them.

I was a mini prepper when I joined here but now I know what are important prepps to survive.

Then take it up a level

In the case of water....

Stores...

Extra storage.. (Something extra to seal the bath plug hole as most leak slowly and cover it with? Few food grade water bottles such as what caravanner s use )

I would like a bath container that sits in the bath but not seen anything that looks very robust -any suggestions??


Purification filters eg cheap mill bank, Puritabs, life saver bottle charcoal, something to boil water with

Purification tabs are in the way to me from tinternet

Collection....
Rain water capture? Local stream?

I live between two country parks which have streams and huge lakes. Can't collect rain water as live in a flat sadly.

Most stuff you will provably have or be able to convert / bastardise

I do have bottled water but nowhere near enough to be honest. But can you ever really have enough?!

[Arzosah]

Is it a plastic screw in tap? Google PTFE tape its about £1 a roll from most diy stores several wraps round the tap threads and screw it in..... Or hawk white aka boss white make plumbers joint compound smea it on the thread and sxrew in

Thanks for this Andy - I have the PTFE tape from before I got ill - at the moment, my garden is only just under control, so that comes first, then "projects" like this outside - then the house!

To be honest, though, I like the sound of plumbers joint compound a *lot* more, sounds a lot more my level than putting stuff onto the tap threads and screwing in ... I'll give the ptfe stuff a go, but bear that in mind.

And thats the prepping mentality - flexibility, knowing whats right for you, willing to lend a hand to someone who's prepared to help themselves, willing to work at improving your own preps.

[ForgeCorvus]

Don't forget to wrap the tape with the thread not against it, otherwise you'll just peel it off as you screw the tap in.

I think I've said this before, Preppers look at the world differently

[Decaff]

I think I've said this before, Preppers look at the world differently

We certainly do! My OH is not a prepper and doesn't understand the need that I have to do this. Mostly I just store our things without mentioning it or I get a look from him that angers me. He has no idea about lots of the things I have "hidden" in plain sight. he's also not very observant

[bladefalcon]

I think in water terms, we're very lucky to live where we live!!
Let's say our climate isn't massively altered in coming years; we have relatively frequent and heavy rainfall which is just asking to be collected. Also, our winters tend to be very mild. I was in Austria last year when my mates farm lost practically all water due to one or two days freak cold weather. We began by pumping up water from the reserve well but the hoses were frozen in no time. Even bucketing the stuff up if would be a slush puppy by the time you got it in the warm! What a nightmare, but it made me realise how lucky we are to have a milder climate.
Water butts are seen as a very politically correct and responsible addition to a garden, so for those worried about "opsec", collection shouldn't be too much of an issue!
Does anyone know off the top of their heads a basic figure in litres per adult per month, including cleaning water..?

[Holomon]

Does anyone know off the top of their heads a basic figure in litres per adult per month, including cleaning water..?

It's between 4.5 and 6 litres a day depending on climate and conditions (like pregnancy etc) which is then split between drinking and hygiene.

That gives between 135 and 180 litres a month per adult.

Based on usual figures and the medical advice to drink 3 litres a day, anyway.

[bladefalcon]

Does anyone know off the top of their heads a basic figure in litres per adult per month, including cleaning water..?

It's between 4.5 and 6 litres a day depending on climate and conditions (like pregnancy etc) which is then split between drinking and hygiene.

That gives between 135 and 180 litres a month per adult.

Based on usual figures and the medical advice to drink 3 litres a day, anyway.

Ta very much!!

[iSkynet]

Based on usual figures and the medical advice to drink 3 litres a day, anyway.

Could you provide link with medical advise to drink 3 litres?
There is no need to drink a lot as we get water in our food as well.