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Survival – Personal Edition

Let’s talk about purifying water in the wilderness. There are four methods: filter, chemical, distillation, and boiling.

Filtering

• This is a general first step and should be used on any source of water.
• Use or make a filter. Coffee filters, paper towels, paper, even tightly woven clothing. Another effective filter is a sock filled with alternating layers of small crushed rocks, crushed charcoal, and sand.
• Pour the water through the filter. The more times, the better the results.
• Remember this will not do anything about bacteria or microorganisms in the water. Follow up with a chemical treatment or boiling.

Chemical

• Bleach: Two drop for each quart of water. Use three drops if the water is really cold or cloudy.
• Iodine: One tablet or five drops of 2% iodine per quart.
• Whichever one you have or choose, mix with the water and let sit at one (1) hour. Ideally you’ll let it mix overnight.

Boiling

• Boil for at least one (1) minute. If you’re above 1k feet, add another minute for 1k feet of elevation.
• For safest results, boil for 10 minutes. Anything longer isn’t necessary.
• Let cool and drink!

Distillation

• Build a solar still to use the heat of the sun to evaporate ground water into a container.
• Dig a one foot hole in the ground that can accommodate your container.
• Put the container in the middle of the hole.
• Cover the hole with plastic. A tarp or garbage bag is perfect for this.
• Seal the cover to the ground with sticks or stones. You don’t want air to escape around the edges.
• Poke a 1/4″ to 1/2″ hole in the middle of the cover. This hole should obviously be over the container.
• Place a small stone near the hole so the cover looks like a funnel. Make sure the hole is not touching the top of the container.
• Now just wait. Heat for the sun will cause the water to evaporate, and it will condense on your cover, then drip into the container below.
• Note this will not produce much water and will take several hours and up to an entire day depending on the strength of the sun and the amount of ground water.

They you go, next time bring enough water with you or have one of the straw filters handy.

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