In my long term bug out bag I have a Sawyer Mini water filter kit and a Hydroblu Go Flow Bag with water purification tabs all in a kit that fits in the palm of my hand. The Hydroblu Go Flow Bag is a 10 liter capacity dry bag with a Camelbak hose attachment that connects to a Sawyer Mini. In a non permissive environment, I just go to the water source, dunk the Hydroblu bag, close it, then connect the Sawyer and gravity filter out of sight. That's the best compact, budget friendly set up I have found. For home, the Berkey is the way to go. Good stuff Carl.
Thank you Tactical Rifleman Team for another video with intelligent and useful information. You are consistently making the common more capable and I am grateful for all you do. God bless.
I took my bags of pool shock and put each bag (non opened) in its own mason jar. I labeled each jar with instructions on how much to use. I have a pond that I can pull water out of and treat 5 gallon buckets all day long. I will still put that water after treatment through my Sawyer .02 filters to double the purity of the water.
Hey Karl, thanks for the great info! I'm going to go get a Berkey or two for sure. I think another approach worth mentioning would be an evaporative (distillation) setup, like a solar or wood-fired still. Disadvantages: 1) It takes a long time to completely evaporate water, 2) It might consume fuel of some kind if it can't be solar powered, 3) Certain VOCs like pesticides will not be removed (they have a lower boiling point than water). Advantages: 1) It doesn't require filters or chemicals that can run out or might be hard to find, 2) You can skip pre-filtering for things like dirt and sediment, 3) Heavy metals and inorganic compounds like lead will be removed 4) It can be effectively scaled up to process huge quantities of water as a long-term solution.
Thank you Karl. Content like yours is hard to find in german. Thanks to DARPA and their internet I can watch your great channel and learn a lot even here in Germany. Greetings from K-town. 🇩🇪
Earlier this year refinanced our home. Got a whole house water filtration system, and a whole house generator. Our water comes from a well and we have a septic system as well.
Very good job explaining that. Exactly the vision l have. Im going to build two of them. Love the way you painted the 2× brace stands green and the pywood board black.
Think next to this, bein able to obtain and safely prepare food from various ways an sources are the most important things. Besides situation awareness and being able to find adequate shelter and protection.. all from scratch if needed. Not too bad
As a public health professional, I think this is a fantastic video!! Another quick and cheap way: filter out particulates with a coffee filter and then a couple drops of bleach.
Great Video! Since I have been watching your channel, I have started to prepare. I like that you have a common sense approach towards prepping, not a "world coming to an end" approach! Thanks TR!
I got me one of them Alexapure gravity filters, ceramic filters and all, stand to put a pot under, all drinking and cooking water comes outta that.... great thing to have a gravity filter of any kind.
I knew it! After basic land navigation SF are taught to use Channel Locks on brass other soft fittings Fing them up. 🤣🤣🤣 Repaired dozens of them on Chigos, LGs, other mini splits not to mention the carnage to plumbing. Great info. Ordered a Berkey week ago. Never heard a negative comment on them in all these years. Have had straw/tablets long time. Hopefully will never need them in earnest situation. Have a good weekend!
Great info, thanks for the advice. I suggest everyone research rocket stoves. They are extremely effective and efficient in boiling water using a small amount of fuel (wood, branches, twigs etc). The process to build is very simple and can be done with 4 cinder blocks or a few bricks. Once you understand how they are constructed your imagination will help you create it with whatever you have on hand. God bless you all.
I’m decent on water filtration. I have a Berkey, but I don’t have a house backup for it outside of what’s in my car. Gotta work on that. Things are easier in my house since I got rid of the other humans. 🐕😎
Been using a Berkey for a few years just to have better drinking water and ice; a simple and great system. Also have a couple of the Berkey Sport bottles too. Great video.
After sanitizing with chlorine, I suggest carbon filtering further to help get rid of some of that chlorine once you purify for bacteria and such. Depending how long you go, that chlorine is gonna affect your health.
Thermal distillation involves heat: Boiling water turns it into vapor-leaving the salt behind-that is collected and condensed back into water by cooling it down. The most common type of membrane separation is called reverse osmosis. Seawater is forced through a semipermeable membrane that separates salt from water.Jul 23, 2008
Riots, hurricanes, pandemics, just waiting for the aliens to come in December. Edit: The rioters don’t seem to comprehend that their plywood shields don’t stop bullets or buckshot.
Water purification tabs are good too. I can get by with them for a weekend or camping trip drinking out of a lake. But longer term I use a Zero water filter at home, Mom uses a Berkey and is very good water. Great video, I drink a lot of water so appreciate the importance of this topic!
I think I'm decently prepared in the water department. I got 1 Life Straw and 1 Mini Sawer for each person in the family. Between the straw and Sawer I should have years of water if needed. Been thinking about getting one of those camping ceramic Katadyn Pocket Water Filters but they run around $350~. You got me thinking about that unit again since it can filter 13,000 gallons.
Ozonation is another option if you have electricity taken care of. Takes some math to figure out the scaling, but you can go large and small. Sawyer's what I got first, but... I wanted an ozone generator anyway, so. Multi-purpose!!
Great information Karl, I'm going to check out the Survival filters. If I do decide to get some, I'll use your promo code. I've been a Sawyer mini guy for years now. Between that boiling and iodine. I think I'm good to go, I have lots of them. Plus I have already put about 7,000 gallons away. In food grade barrels and I bought a 5,000 gallon military surplus heavy duty rubber water storage container. I filled them up with filtered tap water. So I think I'm pretty well prepared for awhile. But I'm always looking to gain knowledge, so I appreciate you taking the time to make this video! Stay safe brother! Alot of the craziness is going on in Kentucky. And it's only going to get worse, the closer we get to the election! I know you and your people could probably take on a small Army! But not necessarily when you're on the road. And were going to need you and the TR crew when the zombie apocalypse kicks off! So stay safe! God bless you and God bless America!🤜🤛🇺🇸
Karl, great video as always. Very informative and helpful as we near this upcoming election. I've gone ahead and bought a Berkey for the family and all of the Survivor items you talked about in preparation and for camping/hiking worse case scenarios. Thanks again for doing what you do.
Berkey filters are mostly made overseas and don't filter as well or have the filter life of the 100% made in the 🇺🇸 Aqua Rain filter. I highly recommend it.
Great vid. I had to pause half way through to place an order for an improvement over our current field filtration. I’ve been put out of commission by amoebic dysentery once in my life, in the wilderness of Temagami, Ontario. That was enough for me. It was nice to find a sub-micron field filter. Thanks for the info. (Tacticalrifleman discount code used.)
I really like your videos, but unfortunately you keep missing out on one of the best filters made - the Sawyer water filters. They last forever (if used correctly), and they filter better and smaller than just about any other common filter out there - literally orders of magnitude better. They are also one of the easiest filters to use - they have versions that just screw onto a water bottle (dirty water in the bottle - squeeze to drink), and one of the most affordable filters made. They also have filters that hook to a faucet (I'm not sure how commonly available they are in the US). They don't remove chemicals however, though not many filters really do. Edit: I like that in-line filter for under the sink.
At onetime Karl I would make my own filters with two 5 gallon buckets, Charcoal, Sand, Grave, and Rocks (not going to get into the layers or drilling holes plus the fittings required as im sure Randy Raw Hide has probably taugh you all this 😊). But it workes great. Now i just use two 5 gallon buckets and drilll two holes in the top bucket plus bottom bucket lid, add a spicket valve to the bottom bucket bottom then use two, Berkey Water Filters and BAM! lol money saved. Plus its a five gallon water filter system for a 1/3 to 1/4 of the cost and 2/3 more water you will have filtered depending on the size Berkey system you have.
For absolutely pure water you would do some form of water distillation. Basically heat up the water and collect the steam/vapor. Have you looked into different distilling methods?
@@TacticalRifleman Oh ya, thanks for doing these and other videos. I bought the Qore Performance Ice Plates and I really helped me get through some hot days. I also switched from ETS magazines to Lancer magazines. I'm looking into buying the electric Survival Filter now too!
I don't know if I can trust the well water, so we've been hauling drinking water for a long time, the only benefit is that having a large supply of potable water on hand is daily practice. Stored well, cleaned drinking water can last a few weeks, and it is easier to keep 20 gallons of city water/reverse osmosis or water you cleaned yourself on hand for a short term emergency than to prepare awful tasting pool water, or boiling "only God knows what" water from unreliable sources. Some amount of storage is beneficial for long term potential emergency. As you mention, easier to prepare 5 gallons of shocked water than piecemeal, easier to boil many gallons of water and store them every single time you want some. If things get bad enough to make these things chores, easier to do one task with purpose and have plenty. We have an old Berkey system, your video reminded me to get some new filters. At the very least, those filters, or even some charcoal alternatives, can reduce that chlorine taste. At best, remove those unknown metals and chemicals you can't "kill". Even a hasty sand/charcoal bucket filter is better than nothing, I suppose. Good video, on probably the most important survival topic of all. Too much red meat won't kill you, green meat will kill. If you are thirsty, bad water can only dehydrate you faster. Thanks for making these.
I have several water treatment systems, including a Berkey. Excellent presentation. Consider Roving Blue products that generate ozone as an after treatment. Oxone is more oxidative than chlorine and hydrogen peroxide. I use ozone as a finish, after the Berkey or after field filtration. Once the water is filtered, the ozone will inactivate any viruses that get through the filter. You can also use the portable, battery operated, Roving Blue ozone as a backup in the bush, in the event your filter freezes. Thank you for the presentation.
The water in my town is not drinkable and they told us that boiling it makes it worse so the only thing we can do is take a shower in it and if you boil it a yellow bubbly film will form.
I ordered a big berkey last week and built a berkey setup last year 👍. Now I want to get some 55 gallon drums. I would have done it in January when I knew this covid thing was coming but I knew I was moving and couldnt fit them with me on the move.
Great topic Carl! Boiling is THE BEST method to purify water. Not sure i agree with you on the bleach though. In SERE we used bleach bcuz it tasted better than the tablets (even w/ neutralizer)...I didn't detect a horrible taste. Ur right that it has a 6 mo. Shelf life before it begins to lose its potency...pool shock is the way to go! Thanks for highlighting such an important topic! The food distribution system in the US is in a crisis... maybe you can spotlight that in the near term.
Me - “This is the best water purifier we can get and this could keep us alive in a crisis!” Wife - “But, does the color go with the other appliances!??” Me - (SMH)
At the market I worked at use to have a big stainless steel electric kettle that looked like that big filter the workers would make coffee for breakfast when we would have our break. For about 8 months all the coffee and tea drinkers would complain the coffee and tea always tastes like ass. Little did they know a Kiwi guy that worked there would throw 4 hot dogs into it every morning as soon as he got to work and 5min before we would have our breakfast break he would go take them out to eat before anyone would see. I thought his improvised boiling method was great the 30 other workers weren't impressed though.
Good video. If you really want to be prepared, you need to secure a steady supply of water, about 3 gallons per person per day. You can do less, but you need to keep yourself, your dishes and your clothes clean et cetera. And when SHTF, you might have to do a lot of hard labour and then you easily sweat a liter of water per hour. So: dig a well or put a rain barrel under every rainpipe around your house and try to store something like 1000 gallons to survive a dry period. If you have no water, then you have no water to purify, right?
Sir the burkey filter is used in my country india years ago like 30 years and these days its use is decreaseing very very few left, for auto mated electric filters😅
What Chlorine dioxide brand is shown at the 6 min mark? Trying to add a good one to the bug out bag. Thanks in advance for any good recommendations. Semper Fi
PUR and most other “water” brands all offer chorine dioxide. Most do tablets... they are okay. I like liquid drops for camping. Look around and find what works best for you. We have a separate couple of videos on water treatment, that you can find in our video archive. Thanks for sharing, TR
Question Carl. Does the home filter need house water pressure to work. If my home water supply is not coming in can I rig up a system with a water tank?
I was just talking about getting a filter for the house with the wife. Her complaint is it "demineralizes" the water. Living on a well in pnw the water quality is pretty great. What would you say in response to that question?
Get your water tested. If she wants her minerals, let her have them. However, she wont want to boil all her water or treat with chlorine for more than a day or two.
Excellent video. Historically speaking, people fight over water.
Yes. I hate to say it, but it's probably best not to advertise that you have anything, at this point.
I appreciate that you guys don’t just focus on firearms, but also on self reliance as an individual.
Never suck and spit, Karl’s words to live by.. 😂
Outstanding sensible video. Well done, sir. By the way, we love our Berkey water filter. Been using one for a long time. Excellent product.
Good to know!
GunGuyTV mine came in yesterday. Took awhile to make up my mind. Glad to know you are getting good results.... God Bless
I have had my Berkey for over a year with constant use. Works great.
The only disaster I see is that red countertop....yikes!
In my long term bug out bag I have a Sawyer Mini water filter kit and a Hydroblu Go Flow Bag with water purification tabs all in a kit that fits in the palm of my hand. The Hydroblu Go Flow Bag is a 10 liter capacity dry bag with a Camelbak hose attachment that connects to a Sawyer Mini. In a non permissive environment, I just go to the water source, dunk the Hydroblu bag, close it, then connect the Sawyer and gravity filter out of sight. That's the best compact, budget friendly set up I have found. For home, the Berkey is the way to go. Good stuff Carl.
Sawyers are the best.
Thank you Tactical Rifleman Team for another video with intelligent and useful information. You are consistently making the common more capable and I am grateful for all you do. God bless.
New drinking game... take a drink when he says "wife" or "literally"
I took my bags of pool shock and put each bag (non opened) in its own mason jar. I labeled each jar with instructions on how much to use. I have a pond that I can pull water out of and treat 5 gallon buckets all day long. I will still put that water after treatment through my Sawyer .02 filters to double the purity of the water.
Hey Karl, thanks for the great info! I'm going to go get a Berkey or two for sure. I think another approach worth mentioning would be an evaporative (distillation) setup, like a solar or wood-fired still. Disadvantages: 1) It takes a long time to completely evaporate water, 2) It might consume fuel of some kind if it can't be solar powered, 3) Certain VOCs like pesticides will not be removed (they have a lower boiling point than water). Advantages: 1) It doesn't require filters or chemicals that can run out or might be hard to find, 2) You can skip pre-filtering for things like dirt and sediment, 3) Heavy metals and inorganic compounds like lead will be removed 4) It can be effectively scaled up to process huge quantities of water as a long-term solution.
Thank you Karl. Content like yours is hard to find in german. Thanks to DARPA and their internet I can watch your great channel and learn a lot even here in Germany. Greetings from K-town. 🇩🇪
Glad you like them!
Fantastic video! I didn't even know this is disaster preparedness month. Thank you.
Good info, thanks Karl. Most people now days really don't know the basics. Keep the videos coming guys, we appreciate it. TR!
More to come!
Can't wait!
Earlier this year refinanced our home. Got a whole house water filtration system, and a whole house generator. Our water comes from a well and we have a septic system as well.
Solid PLan
Very good job explaining that. Exactly the vision l have. Im going to build two of them. Love the way you painted the 2× brace stands green and the pywood board black.
Just make sure you have back up replacement cartridges.
Great water purification info Karl. Thank you!
You are very welcome
🤔 I'm diggin the red counters.
Think next to this, bein able to obtain and safely prepare food from various ways an sources are the most important things. Besides situation awareness and being able to find adequate shelter and protection.. all from scratch if needed. Not too bad
As a public health professional, I think this is a fantastic video!!
Another quick and cheap way: filter out particulates with a coffee filter and then a couple drops of bleach.
Great Video! Since I have been watching your channel, I have started to prepare. I like that you have a common sense approach towards prepping, not a "world coming to an end" approach! Thanks TR!
Welcome aboard!
I got me one of them Alexapure gravity filters, ceramic filters and all, stand to put a pot under, all drinking and cooking water comes outta that.... great thing to have a gravity filter of any kind.
I knew it! After basic land navigation SF are taught to use Channel Locks on brass other soft fittings Fing them up. 🤣🤣🤣 Repaired dozens of them on Chigos, LGs, other mini splits not to mention the carnage to plumbing.
Great info. Ordered a Berkey week ago. Never heard a negative comment on them in all these years. Have had straw/tablets long time. Hopefully will never need them in earnest situation. Have a good weekend!
Lmao. i wish i had a count on the number of brass fittings i left fubar with channel locks, ...its high. 🤣
Oh, the tactical rifleman team does still exist!
Well its nice to see you.
It’s all stuff you want to have. Water is essential
Great info, thanks for the advice. I suggest everyone research rocket stoves. They are extremely effective and efficient in boiling water using a small amount of fuel (wood, branches, twigs etc). The process to build is very simple and can be done with 4 cinder blocks or a few bricks. Once you understand how they are constructed your imagination will help you create it with whatever you have on hand. God bless you all.
Thanks for the tip!
Also you can use a T-shirt to filter the water before you boil it and also after it gets boiled.
My family uses a Berkey system too. Here in California you can't get the stainless steel ones do to prop 65. So I had to get mine from out of state.
😎👍👍 thanks Karl!! Something that I've been thinking about for a while now. I'm sold!
I’m decent on water filtration. I have a Berkey, but I don’t have a house backup for it outside of what’s in my car. Gotta work on that. Things are easier in my house since I got rid of the other humans. 🐕😎
I've been considering a Grayl filter/bottle. I have a backpacker style right now.
Been using a Berkey for a few years just to have better drinking water and ice; a simple and great system. Also have a couple of the Berkey Sport bottles too. Great video.
Thanks for sharing!
Good you talk about survival stuff without being paranoid.
After sanitizing with chlorine, I suggest carbon filtering further to help get rid of some of that chlorine once you purify for bacteria and such. Depending how long you go, that chlorine is gonna affect your health.
More content like this please. Thanks Carl
Great useful information for everyone to use. Shed has a nice kitchen btw
Yes it does!
Thermal distillation involves heat: Boiling water turns it into vapor-leaving the salt behind-that is collected and condensed back into water by cooling it down. The most common type of membrane separation is called reverse osmosis. Seawater is forced through a semipermeable membrane that separates salt from water.Jul 23, 2008
Riots, hurricanes, pandemics, just waiting for the aliens to come in December.
Edit: The rioters don’t seem to comprehend that their plywood shields don’t stop bullets or buckshot.
What about those at the capital?
Water purification tabs are good too. I can get by with them for a weekend or camping trip drinking out of a lake. But longer term I use a Zero water filter at home, Mom uses a Berkey and is very good water. Great video, I drink a lot of water so appreciate the importance of this topic!
Excellent info.
I snagged 10 unused msr bladder filters for 15$ each at a surplus store. Good for 1000 liters. Way cheaper than replacements.
I think I'm decently prepared in the water department. I got 1 Life Straw and 1 Mini Sawer for each person in the family. Between the straw and Sawer I should have years of water if needed. Been thinking about getting one of those camping ceramic Katadyn Pocket Water Filters but they run around $350~. You got me thinking about that unit again since it can filter 13,000 gallons.
Thank you Carl, very informative.
Ozonation is another option if you have electricity taken care of. Takes some math to figure out the scaling, but you can go large and small. Sawyer's what I got first, but... I wanted an ozone generator anyway, so. Multi-purpose!!
Look at Roving Blue. Their pen will do a glass of water in 30 seconds. The larger units will treat gallons in minutes.
Man I appreciate this info Karl! I literally asked you this question on the last tactical Tuesday!!!! Good stuff bro
I always appreciate your vids. You do God's work. Thanks.
Great information Karl, I'm going to check out the Survival filters. If I do decide to get some, I'll use your promo code. I've been a Sawyer mini guy for years now. Between that boiling and iodine. I think I'm good to go, I have lots of them. Plus I have already put about 7,000 gallons away. In food grade barrels and I bought a 5,000 gallon military surplus heavy duty rubber water storage container. I filled them up with filtered tap water. So I think I'm pretty well prepared for awhile. But I'm always looking to gain knowledge, so I appreciate you taking the time to make this video! Stay safe brother! Alot of the craziness is going on in Kentucky. And it's only going to get worse, the closer we get to the election! I know you and your people could probably take on a small Army! But not necessarily when you're on the road. And were going to need you and the TR crew when the zombie apocalypse kicks off! So stay safe! God bless you and God bless America!🤜🤛🇺🇸
Karl, great video as always. Very informative and helpful as we near this upcoming election. I've gone ahead and bought a Berkey for the family and all of the Survivor items you talked about in preparation and for camping/hiking worse case scenarios. Thanks again for doing what you do.
THanks for the SUpport. TR
Berkey filters are mostly made overseas and don't filter as well or have the filter life of the 100% made in the 🇺🇸 Aqua Rain filter. I highly recommend it.
.02 microns is the Holy Grail filtration.
Great vid. I had to pause half way through to place an order for an improvement over our current field filtration. I’ve been put out of commission by amoebic dysentery once in my life, in the wilderness of Temagami, Ontario. That was enough for me. It was nice to find a sub-micron field filter. Thanks for the info. (Tacticalrifleman discount code used.)
Another excellent video Karl!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
I really like your videos, but unfortunately you keep missing out on one of the best filters made - the Sawyer water filters. They last forever (if used correctly), and they filter better and smaller than just about any other common filter out there - literally orders of magnitude better. They are also one of the easiest filters to use - they have versions that just screw onto a water bottle (dirty water in the bottle - squeeze to drink), and one of the most affordable filters made. They also have filters that hook to a faucet (I'm not sure how commonly available they are in the US).
They don't remove chemicals however, though not many filters really do.
Edit: I like that in-line filter for under the sink.
Clean water=better coffee.
Great Job SGM.
That way you can have extra Coffee to replace the red stuff that used to run through your body.
Ask a local lab if you can get some of their 18.2Mohm water, and make espresso with it. It's a religious experience.
At onetime Karl I would make my own filters with two 5 gallon buckets, Charcoal, Sand, Grave, and Rocks (not going to get into the layers or drilling holes plus the fittings required as im sure Randy Raw Hide has probably taugh you all this 😊). But it workes great. Now i just use two 5 gallon buckets and drilll two holes in the top bucket plus bottom bucket lid, add a spicket valve to the bottom bucket bottom then use two, Berkey Water Filters and BAM! lol money saved. Plus its a five gallon water filter system for a 1/3 to 1/4 of the cost and 2/3 more water you will have filtered depending on the size Berkey system you have.
Great info as always!!
For absolutely pure water you would do some form of water distillation.
Basically heat up the water and collect the steam/vapor.
Have you looked into different distilling methods?
Yes, but it is a lot of work &time to just get drinking water. I’ll save that for when I only have sea water.
@@TacticalRifleman Oh ya, thanks for doing these and other videos. I bought the Qore Performance Ice Plates and I really helped me get through some hot days. I also switched from ETS magazines to Lancer magazines. I'm looking into buying the electric Survival Filter now too!
Awesome advice.
Thanks Karl, good stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you, very sensible information!
You are welcome!
I don't know if I can trust the well water, so we've been hauling drinking water for a long time, the only benefit is that having a large supply of potable water on hand is daily practice. Stored well, cleaned drinking water can last a few weeks, and it is easier to keep 20 gallons of city water/reverse osmosis or water you cleaned yourself on hand for a short term emergency than to prepare awful tasting pool water, or boiling "only God knows what" water from unreliable sources.
Some amount of storage is beneficial for long term potential emergency. As you mention, easier to prepare 5 gallons of shocked water than piecemeal, easier to boil many gallons of water and store them every single time you want some. If things get bad enough to make these things chores, easier to do one task with purpose and have plenty.
We have an old Berkey system, your video reminded me to get some new filters. At the very least, those filters, or even some charcoal alternatives, can reduce that chlorine taste. At best, remove those unknown metals and chemicals you can't "kill". Even a hasty sand/charcoal bucket filter is better than nothing, I suppose.
Good video, on probably the most important survival topic of all. Too much red meat won't kill you, green meat will kill. If you are thirsty, bad water can only dehydrate you faster. Thanks for making these.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great topic. Thank you for the video.
We have a well and still run all our drinking water through a counter top filter.
Better water = Better coffee. I'll drink to that!
Dig the color scheme
Great info! Thx Karl from the Asylum!
Cook the pizza yet 🙄
the donuteater haha. Still no pizza trying to watch my diet a bit. But still on the menu!!
Glad it was helpful!
BIG!
Small!
I have several water treatment systems, including a Berkey. Excellent presentation. Consider Roving Blue products that generate ozone as an after treatment. Oxone is more oxidative than chlorine and hydrogen peroxide. I use ozone as a finish, after the Berkey or after field filtration. Once the water is filtered, the ozone will inactivate any viruses that get through the filter. You can also use the portable, battery operated, Roving Blue ozone as a backup in the bush, in the event your filter freezes. Thank you for the presentation.
Thanks for sharing
Carl looks like he's in the gym! You're getting extra buff Sir!!
The water in my town is not drinkable and they told us that boiling it makes it worse so the only thing we can do is take a shower in it and if you boil it a yellow bubbly film will form.
That sucks.
Karl, that’s Cormac McCarthy’s book of an apocalyptic walk across the country.
But cudo’s for reading.
I ordered a big berkey last week and built a berkey setup last year 👍. Now I want to get some 55 gallon drums. I would have done it in January when I knew this covid thing was coming but I knew I was moving and couldnt fit them with me on the move.
Go for it!
The “Toelet”
Great topic Carl! Boiling is THE BEST method to purify water. Not sure i agree with you on the bleach though. In SERE we used bleach bcuz it tasted better than the tablets (even w/ neutralizer)...I didn't detect a horrible taste. Ur right that it has a 6 mo. Shelf life before it begins to lose its potency...pool shock is the way to go! Thanks for highlighting such an important topic!
The food distribution system in the US is in a crisis... maybe you can spotlight that in the near term.
Me - “This is the best water purifier we can get and this could keep us alive in a crisis!”
Wife - “But, does the color go with the other appliances!??”
Me - (SMH)
Too True
So glad i have a well right about now 😅 as long as we can stay home
Still be prepared for filtration and chemical treatment. It is very easy for disasters to contaminate ground water. TR
Thanks for another great video, Karl! My goal is to be like you one day.
Nah, I'm just a regular guy. Aim higher. Be awesome. You can do it!
Pays to have a well!
Yep, however, you still have to be prepared to have the water treated, if and when the water becomes contaminated
Until I can afford a Berkey $$$, I'm using the Sawyer gravity feed filter system, off grid. HOOOAH
At the market I worked at use to have a big stainless steel electric kettle that looked like that big filter the workers would make coffee for breakfast when we would have our break. For about 8 months all the coffee and tea drinkers would complain the coffee and tea always tastes like ass. Little did they know a Kiwi guy that worked there would throw 4 hot dogs into it every morning as soon as he got to work and 5min before we would have our breakfast break he would go take them out to eat before anyone would see. I thought his improvised boiling method was great the 30 other workers weren't impressed though.
Wow. That’s awesome and horrible at the same time!
Lucky for me I dont drink tea or coffee haha
Who else got distracted after seeing the Patron Cafe’ on the counter!?!? Lol 😂
How about the company (MSR) Mountain Safety Research? They make a lot of gear for camping survival and disaster relief?
MSR also makes good stuff
Good video. If you really want to be prepared, you need to secure a steady supply of water, about 3 gallons per person per day. You can do less, but you need to keep yourself, your dishes and your clothes clean et cetera. And when SHTF, you might have to do a lot of hard labour and then you easily sweat a liter of water per hour. So: dig a well or put a rain barrel under every rainpipe around your house and try to store something like 1000 gallons to survive a dry period. If you have no water, then you have no water to purify, right?
Agreed... Having a river on your property helps too.
Unrelated to this video: What is the water/iodine ratio for making an antiseptic? Thanks, Karl!! Keep up the good content, brother
I believe minimum of 50-1
Sir the burkey filter is used in my country india years ago like 30 years and these days its use is decreaseing very very few left, for auto mated electric filters😅
How do people feel about a reverse osmosis filter with a 55 gallon drum to supplement these other solutions?
Faucet seems a little loose Just sayin
All you need to filter water is an old sock.
Great video Karl beats doing civil affairs missions digging wells all over the third world.
Very true
whats a toll et?
Looks like your beach house lol 🇺🇸👍🏻
Pretty close. It is our Shed
What Chlorine dioxide brand is shown at the 6 min mark? Trying to add a good one to the bug out bag. Thanks in advance for any good recommendations. Semper Fi
PUR and most other “water” brands all offer chorine dioxide. Most do tablets... they are okay. I like liquid drops for camping. Look around and find what works best for you. We have a separate couple of videos on water treatment, that you can find in our video archive. Thanks for sharing, TR
Tactical “Woe” Riflemen
CARVER when the anarchist management steps up the infiltration....
Question Carl. Does the home filter need house water pressure to work. If my home water supply is not coming in can I rig up a system with a water tank?
The in-line filter requires pressure. The Berkey works great via Gravity. Get that largest one in your case.
@@TacticalRifleman thanks. I'm shopping now.
I was just talking about getting a filter for the house with the wife. Her complaint is it "demineralizes" the water. Living on a well in pnw the water quality is pretty great. What would you say in response to that question?
Get your water tested. If she wants her minerals, let her have them. However, she wont want to boil all her water or treat with chlorine for more than a day or two.
@@TacticalRifleman I agree. What's the best method for testing water?
very nice video
Thanks
be prepared because there will be plenty of opportunist trying to take advantage.
*doomsday preppers*:
its my time to shine
TR, is that a CHERRY-LIME-AID in dat Sonics styrofoam cup?!!!
(my favorite beverage from that particular establishment)
Actually, it was an Vanilla Ice Coffee. Once I get home, I add 4 more shots of espresso, and it's pure magic. THanks for watching, TR