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To: basil
"but I don’t know the best way clean up water so that it’s safe to drink."

"Can somebody help me with that information............"

One of the best ways I have found (if you have access to a good fire/heating source) is to use a "moonshine still" design.

The basic ingredients are a container you can seal up. An old crock pot is good. the bigger the better.

A goodly amount of flexible copper tubing. and you will need a fitting to attach it to the lid of the crock pot. Then a plastic 5 gallon bucket for the "sump" and then we used another fitting to run the copper tubing out the side of the bucket at the bottom.

The idea behind this is you put your water in the crock pot then seal it up and the copper tubing is ran to the bucket and coiled up (looks like a spring when you get done.) and run out the side of the bucket. you need a fitting here because the bucket needs to hold water.

The water in the crock pot turns to steam is forced along the tubing until it gets to the bucket where the water in the "sump" (Water that surrounds the outside of the copper tubing) will cool it back down and the steam then changes back to fresh "distilled" water.

Also if The SHTF you can make both wood and grain alcohol (which has hundreds of uses) with the same still.

Here is a brief youtube video that gives you the idea. Crock pot Water Distiller

204 posted on 10/01/2012 7:18:17 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg

http://www.ifrc.org/Global/Publications/disasters/142100-hwt-en.pdf

http://readynutrition.com/resources/better-than-bleach-use-calcium-hypochlorite-to-disinfect-water_19062010/

http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm

In my opion you need more than one way to clean your water, but ways that use the least amount of energy are the best. In shft fan energy=work and shtf fan is a lot of work.


221 posted on 10/01/2012 7:50:17 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Mad Dawgg

Sounds like a good system and I am sure you are proud of your work, but most don’t have the skills nor a home that such a systems would readily work with. Me I live in the Desert South West the last thing I want to do 6 months out of the year is fire up a stove.

The of point of these survival threads is getting survival tools into as many hands of as many as possible as quickly as possible. Now which fits that bill your system or something like this:

http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm


261 posted on 10/01/2012 9:37:48 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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