Posted on 05/15/2022 5:32:42 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Creek..............
My family knows I’m obsessed with having water. So, yes...I have gallons everywhere.
And I’m in the Northwest. And live on the Columbia River...lol.
The water heater has up to 50 gallons.
I’m lucky. I have three wells, two good ones and one with bad water. I also have two creeks within half a mile of home.
Yeah, I could look on the Internet but I'll ask here for starters. I have a few old GLASS 5 gallon Sparklett's water bottles.
I would imagine the old glass 5 gal bottles are in demand right now.. Swap meets are a good place to find those. Better to keep for LONG storage in GLASS rather than PLASTIC.
How do you safely treat chlorinated swimming pool water?
And run it thru a sand filter, then thru a Big Berkey. And have some sodium hypochlorite pool shock to make clean, fresh bleach.
That reminded me : I have an old coke bottle for fountain syrup. I’ll bet it holds 20 gallons. Just need to rinse it out ahead of time.
***just careful to drink upstream from the horses.***
I had a friend on a hunting trip to Colorado. He drank out of the water coming from a small dammed up creek. He was sick for days!
I have a well and a trout stream in my back yard.
I think I will be OK.
Biosand filter.
Run out of water = you die
Uhm, but this is saying there is no water at the store. So what do you do?
I say have hand pump well drilled if your country.
Or stock up mason jars of water in your basement. I have those large plastic water containers and after a few years they leak.
Make sure to boil your dihydrogen monoxide to fully reconstitute you dehydrated water. Nothing is worse then dry water.
I have a variable speed well pump that WILL operate off of a 1500-watt inverter connected to a deep-cycle marine battery. It’s a 240V pump, but I have a step-up transformer.
This pump pulls about 800W with one faucet on. This setup cost about $1200 more than a fixed-speed pump—which usually needs a fairly large (5000kW?) generator just to handle the huge startup surge they have.
Make sure you have a backup to pump said water from the wells.
5kW not 5000kW!
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
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