Berkey Filter

[UncleSamsMisguidedChild]

More of calculated risk, IMO.....open mountain streams can be some of the worst in terms of contamination, as are stock tanks, etc. - but the streams are what surprises everyone, because they presume they're "pure".

I never understood that one. Hey look at this snow melt running down the side of a mountain. Passing all that flora and fauna, home to bacteria, algae and fish. Carrier of fecal matter and diluted urine, looks pure to me.....

O.o what?!?

 

[steve-o]

Good info, thanks TR, I guess I have to do some more homework.

 

[Southpaw]

So TR, I have to ask being that you know what you know, in an emergency situation, where the only water is of unknown source, what would you do? This might be a very broad based question, but just curious as to your general insight in a bad situation.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Boil & filter.

 

[Sugar Land]

You can barrow Cams. He does not need his...lol

 

[ZX9RCAM]

You can barrow Cams. He does not need his...lol

I said I have not opened it, never said I won't possibly sometime need it, lol.

 

[London]

How to Make a Homemade Water Filter

 

[Stukaman]

It's a wonder humans ever found drinkable water.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

It's a wonder humans ever found drinkable water.

Well, alot has changed in the last 150 yrs. or so, lol....

 

[London]

Not trying to steal TR's thunder here (I'm sure he'll chime in anyway), but I was taught that if you absolutely need water in the middle of nowhere, drink whatever is available. Better to give yourself a chance of living long enough to get to a hospital to get treated for what you drank than to certainly die of dehydration.

 

[Stukaman]

Well, alot has changed in the last 150 yrs. or so, lol....

Such as?

 

[ZX9RCAM]

The production of various things that create hazardous waste as a byproduct, for example.

 

[Stukaman]

Yeah just kinda wondered if no water was safe or have just lost the ability to handle it

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Yeah just kinda wondered if no water was safe or have just lost the ability to handle it

Most water used to be safe, loooooong time ago, lol.

 

[Stukaman]

Well why can animals handle some things we cant

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Well why can animals handle some things we cant

Same reason we go to Mexico & get Montezuma's revenge & the locals don't.

 

[Stukaman]

Mexicans aren't animals though, they are Mexicans lol but I know what you mean.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Thank you, lol.