Great difficulty making potable water

[Lizw]

Re: Great difficulty making potable water

I wanted to share another link. These are for personal use, or you can donate to areas that need them. Options for organizations also. Their intentions are primarily for third world countries, but maybe someone will find they need this for personal use also. Great backup at the very least. Once full, you will not be moving it.. lol

And if you want to build one yourself, here are the instructions for doing it, along with a lot of good general information about filtering.

 

[Possibilities]

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Thanks for the article on the sand filter. The one that I had didn't have such excellent photos or such descriptive words on the construction.

I think if everyone thinks about the short term supply of chlorine at the water departments across the country, not to mention the fact that we may be short of employees there. Finding a source of water, and purifying it may very well be our greatest challenge long term.

 

[Lizw]

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I think if everyone thinks about the short term supply of chlorine at the water departments across the country, not to mention the fact that we may be short of employees there. Finding a source of water, and purifying it may very well be our greatest challenge long term.

It's been raining here for most of the last month. Aggravates the dickens out of me that I can't work on the garden, but my rain barrels are full

Rainwater, everyone. It does take some care and a lot of filtering to make it safe to drink, but there are methods that work. SODIS (Solar Water Disinfection) is a simple one used widely around the world. Doesn't get harmful chemicals out of your water, but it does take care of viruses that are too small to be filtered out.

 

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http://student.designawards.com.au/application_detail.jsp?status=4&applicationID=5898

Here's a cool setup of a solar distillation unit with multiple sections to distill water into several containers. It's not commercially available. It uses existing technology just is lightweight. I suspect you would need a very large unit to produce enough water to distill for a family of four per day. You also need a water source and or rainwater.