Water Butts

 

I have lifted this from another thread on this newsgroup and ask a question
after it.
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""actually in area where they are dependent on pumping stations to get them
water, that might not be too silly. What use dry foods when there is no
water at the tap and no one has come round with standpipes?
You'd probably need to have both dried and tinned foods, and a few spare
water containers

Jim Webster ""
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Most of the readers of this newsgroup will have water butts, we have 8 and
they are full.

Question. Considering they have creepy crawlies in them at certain times of
the year, (I haven't been out to see if there are any now) how can the water
be made fit for drinking in an emergency?

Mike


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You boil it first?!

 

helene@urbed.coop wrote:

You can buy flasks that filter water, maintained to be 100% efficient in
getting rid of nasties. I have seen a demonstration where water was
taken from a foul ditch, filtered and then drank.  Not by me I hasten to
add.

 





Is this the same as those things you can buy for the kitchen? :-(((

We have one of those things in the fridge and my wife did start to use it
for the kettle to 'stop it furring up'. Made a dreadful cup of tea. Very
very bitter to such a degree that I stopped drinking tea :-((

Mike


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'Mike' says...

I think they are different. The water filter you mention is
to remove hardness or other dissolved minerals. Usually by
activated carbon which absorbs chemicals from the water
onto it's surface.

The filter used to remove nasties from the foul ditch I
would guess probably has multi layers of filters (as in
sieves) or ever smaller size. If the smallest can filter
out bacteria then the water should be free of harmful
organisms. If this method was combined with the activated
charcoal filter then dissolved minerals could also be
removed.
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