Water Assurance: An Inexpensive Device
Here is another article from a friend on a plan to backup your water. Howard Water is a concern for us as a family. In the area where we live, we do not often face …
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A Review of the Sawyer Mini Filter
A while back, I picked up a four pack of Sawyer Mini Filters. Since then I have been playing with them and have grown to like them for use in a bug out or get …
Converting 275-Gallon Totes to Use a Hose Bib
The 275-gallon food grade totes are great for long-term water storage and building rain catchment systems. They normally can be purchased relatively inexpensively. The one problem with them is that that can come with different …
Learn How to Pasteurize Your Water Without Boiling
This is a update of an article that I posted several years ago on how to pasteurize your water. It explains how you can pasteurize your water without bringing it to a boil. In an emergency …
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Purifying Water with Chlorine Bleach and Pool Chlorine
A lot of this information has been posted on this blog in the past, however I still get questions on it so I thought I would cover purifying water with chlorine again. I see FEMA, …
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The 20 liter Collapsible Swiss Water Bladder.
For at least the last 15 years or so I have used the Swiss Military Issue 20 Liter (5.28 US Gallon) collapsible water bladder when I go camping. It is my understanding that the Swiss …
Rainwater Collecting can Provide Water for Drinking an Other Uses
In California, we are finally starting to get a bit of rain. Not enough to break the drought, but enough that you should start thinking about how to collect rainwater. When I was a child …
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The Berkey Official Response to the Toledo Ohio Algae Bloom.
I don’t normally put up information from other sources, but here is Berkey Response to the Toledo Ohio Algae Bloom. It sounds like their filter would have worked under the circumstances, but read the article and …
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Storing Water May be Your Most Important Prep
Periodically, I try to stress the need for storing water. Over the last few years, we have seen several incidents that show how easy our infrastructure can fail. Last Jan the water was cut off to …
Some Thoughts on Storing Water for Emergencies.
This year with the drought, I am watching streams and other water sources disappear. I have lived in this area for over 30 years and have talked with people who have lived here much longer …