How do I know which water source is ok to purify
Re: How do I know which water source is ok to purify
in any SHTF event I would NOT assume ANY water is safe, and act accordingly.
Adapt or Die, there is no middle ground.
Re: How do I know which water source is ok to purify
Unsafe for standard purification, as per the OP? Or Unsafe and needing precautions? And would that include your own bottled water?lonewolf wrote:in any SHTF event I would NOT assume ANY water is safe, and act accordingly.
Re: How do I know which water source is ok to purify
the latter. assume all water is suspect and act accordingly. the same goes for anything else in a SHTF situation, as our American cousins would say "never assume a goddam thing"!!
Adapt or Die, there is no middle ground.
Re: How do I know which water source is ok to purify
Personally in that situation I wouldn't drink anything (collected from external sources) that hadn't been through at least a 3 stage filter. Activated carbon is cheap enough to pick up, opinions vary on when it is 'used up' but I would think that something like a gram a litre would be a fair estimate?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/500g-activate ... 25935ffbe3
I would make sand the bottom layer, carbon in the middle with something poly-esque (think pillow stuffing) as the first mechanical layer. There are bound to be plenty of more detailed (and probably more accurate) threads on that one though!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/500g-activate ... 25935ffbe3
I would make sand the bottom layer, carbon in the middle with something poly-esque (think pillow stuffing) as the first mechanical layer. There are bound to be plenty of more detailed (and probably more accurate) threads on that one though!