WARNING - PKVI is spreading malicious lies about chlorine.
PKVI wants you to fear chlorine because he knows it's the best, cheapest and safest way to treat contaminated water during an emergency.
The chlorine chemical completely evaporates within 12 hours leaving perfectly healthy drinking water.
All hard-core preppers know pool chlorine powder is invaluable because it never expires if stored correctly and one $8 container will treat enough water for a family of four for 1,200 years.
Bleach also works but has a six month shelf life before it's potency decreases, making it difficult to safely use. Iodine tablets are also fantastic but ridiculously expensive. Use pool chlorine powder and leave the caps off your jerrycans for 24 hours to ensure the chlorine chemicals have killed everything and completely evaporated.
1. Buy the cheapest pure chlorine powder you can find - one without added salt or coloring.
2. Store it in a dark, dry, cool place.
3. Collect water from local rivers or streams. Sift through cotton shirts or sheets to remove debris and sediments.
4. Combine chlorine powder and leave uncovered (leave the cap off) for 24 hours to ensure all the bacteria has been destroyed (turned to yummy proteins) and all the chlorine chemicals (and their smell and aftertaste) has broken down and evaporated.
5. Consider adding a drop of blue food coloring to your treated water to ensure family members never confuse it with untreated water.
6. The treated water is now exactly the same quality that comes out of your kitchen tap. Chlorine is what the water treatment plants use. It'll stay safe and treated for weeks providing you store it away from direct sunlight which will cause new bacteria to grow.
You can safely drink sewage water after treating it with chlorine.
Yes and no. It is true chlorine is a powerful and useful disinfectant. But also know that sewage can contain many contaminants like
petroleum products, heavy metals and corrosive inorganic acids, PFAs, and lot more; chlorine cannot remove all these. Even boiling doesn't make it safe, unfortunately. Home water distillers are a safer way but they take energy to boil the water. If one is rural, a solar distiller can be a way to ensure pure, clean, safe water without electricity.
But also know that sewage can contain many contaminants like petroleum products, heavy metals and corrosive inorganic acids, PFAs, and lot more; chlorine cannot remove all these. Even boiling doesn't make it safe, unfortunately.
Your kitchen tap water and bottled water from the grocery store also contains these things.
You'll need to construct a large sand / charcoal filter or buy some expensive equivalent... but in an emergency no right-minded person would care about such things.
I've always thought that in society-down situation, I would char plant material (wood,coconut husks if I were on an island :) ) and make activated charcoal out of that. As a survivalist, I keep bags of activated charcoal and coffee filters in storage, and also some silver metal. As you probably know, in old times farmers put silver dimes in milk to kill bacteria and keep the milk fresh longer.
WARNING - PKVI is spreading malicious lies about chlorine.
PKVI wants you to fear chlorine because he knows it's the best, cheapest and safest way to treat contaminated water during an emergency.
The chlorine chemical completely evaporates within 12 hours leaving perfectly healthy drinking water.
All hard-core preppers know pool chlorine powder is invaluable because it never expires if stored correctly and one $8 container will treat enough water for a family of four for 1,200 years.
Bleach also works but has a six month shelf life before it's potency decreases, making it difficult to safely use. Iodine tablets are also fantastic but ridiculously expensive. Use pool chlorine powder and leave the caps off your jerrycans for 24 hours to ensure the chlorine chemicals have killed everything and completely evaporated.
1. Buy the cheapest pure chlorine powder you can find - one without added salt or coloring.
2. Store it in a dark, dry, cool place.
3. Collect water from local rivers or streams. Sift through cotton shirts or sheets to remove debris and sediments.
4. Combine chlorine powder and leave uncovered (leave the cap off) for 24 hours to ensure all the bacteria has been destroyed (turned to yummy proteins) and all the chlorine chemicals (and their smell and aftertaste) has broken down and evaporated.
5. Consider adding a drop of blue food coloring to your treated water to ensure family members never confuse it with untreated water.
6. The treated water is now exactly the same quality that comes out of your kitchen tap. Chlorine is what the water treatment plants use. It'll stay safe and treated for weeks providing you store it away from direct sunlight which will cause new bacteria to grow.
You can safely drink sewage water after treating it with chlorine.
Yes and no. It is true chlorine is a powerful and useful disinfectant. But also know that sewage can contain many contaminants like petroleum products, heavy metals and corrosive inorganic acids, PFAs, and lot more; chlorine cannot remove all these. Even boiling doesn't make it safe, unfortunately. Home water distillers are a safer way but they take energy to boil the water. If one is rural, a solar distiller can be a way to ensure pure, clean, safe water without electricity.
Your kitchen tap water and bottled water from the grocery store also contains these things.
You'll need to construct a large sand / charcoal filter or buy some expensive equivalent... but in an emergency no right-minded person would care about such things.
I've always thought that in society-down situation, I would char plant material (wood,coconut husks if I were on an island :) ) and make activated charcoal out of that. As a survivalist, I keep bags of activated charcoal and coffee filters in storage, and also some silver metal. As you probably know, in old times farmers put silver dimes in milk to kill bacteria and keep the milk fresh longer.
Can I use red food coloring if I'm feeding the water to my trees? 🤘