Water purifier Q - Anyone ever hear of this brand?
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Boiling your water will also kill viruses.
Super-cheap iodine tablets will also kill every living thing in water. I use them while traveling through Tibet when the only thing to drink is effectively sewage water... and I've never been sick from my treated water. The water will taste of iodine and become pink after treatment, but I don't mind because that's what safety tastes like :-).
A tiny drop of bleach is also super effective, but you'll cause yourself serious harm if you get the measurements wrong. Note that bleach expires relatively quickly so if you're using it for prepping then you'll need to replace it regularly.
Always add a droplet of blue food coloring to your treated water so there is NEVER any confusion - especially if you've got kids and especially if you're using bleach because you won't want to accidentally treat it twice.
I like the LifeStraw range of products for water purification - they don't just make those silly straws but have far better large-scale water purification systems for individuals, families and entire communities.
LifeStraw Community would be a cheaper alternative to LifeSaver product and it'll convert twice as much water and last forever.
Here are some other large-scale water purification solutions from LifeStraw if Community is more than you need.
All you have to do to kill bacteria and virus in water is leave it in the sunlight for a day.
https://waterpurificationguide.com/how-to-disinfect-water-with-sunlight/
I have a 15,000 gallon pool as water source. I need to make sure I know how to purify it for drinking if needed. Besides drinking, this water source would take pressure off using potable water for other things.
Sees to me that if it had any pool chlorine in it, all I would have to do it let it sit/breath for a while in container, and chlorine would dissipate, and then put in plastic bottle and let it sit in sun for 24 hours to kill any bacteria. Not 100% sure about this though.
Back on my property in North Florida I have an arteasian well. It's around 700 feat deep with approx. 15 lbs of pressure with no pump. Gosh I loved having all that water. If the electricity ever went out, I would just run a hose from the ball valve I had on a two inch PVC running up to my yard and still have water inside my house, with no pump needed. I sold the house but still have the property with the 4in. arteasian well.
Funny, back when I was a kid, growing up on the Florida/Georgia line, we spent most of our days, all day long in the woods. Walking down in hard wood bottom the creeks no more than a few feet wide the color of Coca Cola would flowing. If we got really thirsty, we would find a place where the water was running fast, like over a log and scoop up a handful and drink it. I never remember getting sick.
False.
Sunlight breeds bacteria which is why water supplies need to be stored in a dark place.
You could not be more wrong fren, and you are missing a proven technique that could save your life. Please educate yourself.
Search SODIS (Solar Disinfection)
See How To Disinfect Water With Sunlight
How to Purify Water Using the Sun
Video: Using the Sun to Purify Water with SODIS
Video: SODIS Water Disinfecting Water Purification Guide - How To Disinfect Water With Sunlight
This is what you said and what I responded to:
You earlier comment was incredibly vague and dangerous.
And you last comment is even more dangerous because SODIS, if done correctly, only kills bacteria and doesn't kill viruses or purify the water in any meaningful way.
You use words like "disinfect" and "purify" irresponsibly because people will read your wildly misleading comments and believe your false claims. Yes SODIS works for killing bacteria if done correctly. No, SODIS does not purify water in any meaningful way - it just makes it slightly safer and people will then need to use a real method to filter and kill the viruses and contaminants which defeats the purpose of screwing around with SODIS.
Also I did not make any claim relative to storing water in a non-clear container. SODIS technique is used to purify the water, If you store water in plastic containers the primary reason you store plastic containers in dark area is not because Sunlight makes bacteria grow where their is none to start with, it's because Sunlight can cause plastic to degrade over time.