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Originally Posted by Peregrino
No, but I will be looking for them next year. Thanks for the info. Now I need to find/make an actvated charcoal filter to put downstream from this one. (Chemically contaminated well water at the new house, lost the lake I depended on when we moved, now I'm stuck on city water and have to have a more elaborate emergency plan.  ) |
Key West as no natural water. Many houses are set up as compounds. My house there had a two story duplex and the house next door with rain gutters and piping that sent ALL rainwater into the cistern that was under my back porch. Not sure of the exact tankage but the cistern itself was 8 feet deep, 22feet long by 12 feet wide. At any given time it was 1/2 to 2/3's full. We had a foot pump that could get water out fairly easily.
Whale gusher makes a simple foot pump that runs about $100, get the tubing that is for 45psi and up..
The problem with technology is that it breaks down. If there is a breakdown in society that creates a need for all this prep. Then, the possibilty of finding replacement parts decreases, it seems, with the further slide into more 'primitive' living conditions. Some of the old standbys for purifying water are pretty simple. Bleach and iodine. Bleach breaks down into biodegradeable components within roughly 24 hours. I use it all the time in my water tank.
One might consider sorting through the Foxfire Series of books. Is it Mother Earth News that has all that back to the earth living in primitive conditions like hippies stuff a lot in thier mag? Thing is a lot of that stuff is very useful. But to get past the organic, back to the earth, techonology is bad stuff is a bit bothersome.