Thanks! I had no idea the formula was being fiddled with. Amazing how powerful bleach is. A gallon of bleach could purify a heck of a lot of water.
Let’s see; 1 gal = 58,369.65 drops divided by 8 = 7,296
That would hydrate me for a while.
My father 3was chief inspector for his area of sanitation department for 20 years. They had a pamphlet produced for campers. Here’s what it said.
You can use water from almost anywhere, lakes, ponds, artesian wells or whatever, add 2 drops chlorine bleach per gallon, let it sit overnight and if it still has a slight bleach smell in the morning it’s safe to drink.
Go with 8 drops if you want to, as long as you can still detect a bleach smell the next morning. If not, do it again.
I used this with wat3er from a local artesian well for over 10 years, never had any problems. Our well water was pretty bad, I think the pickup was too low and it was bringing up mud from the well. Water was brownish, didn’t taste good so we used water from the artesian well.
we have a different shallow water well now, better water but I still use bottled water for drinking. When I moved back here, artesian well seems to have some sort of powdery yellow fungus or something growing in the pipe, I haven’t been able to get a brush to clean it out with and see if it improves. Someone put a PVC pipe in at least 20 years ago. I got a bottle full and could see yellow stuff floating in it. Not drinking that...