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If storing bleach it decays as a liquid over time about 1 percent a year so 5 percent bleach after a year is 4 percent. Get a bag of sodium hypochlorate powder if store cool dry out of sun last a very long time 2 tsp flat in a gallon of water makes 5 percent bleach 50 lb bag is $40. 21 percent bleach can be used to clean up from vx nerve agent. https://www.nap.edu/read/5274/chapter/10
At high altitude you can use distillation to get clean water, if in sunny time you can put one empty bottle buried in cold wet earth above the bottle filled with watery liquid, you can use urine as source. The liquid bottle is in sunlight ( blacken for better results) .connect with a hose of some kind.
To do faster you can heat a pressure cooker with no safety valve (attach the hose to safety valve hole) and another pot in water source or again in cooler environment and let the liquid flow from convection it’s not super fast but the water is pure after. To speed the process up cool the hose or heat the starter pot more, also a longer hose made of metal works better. This is a basic still set up you can distill alcohol from mash if you use a thermometer to make sure you are getting the ethyl not methyl alcohol. One is happy one is blind. The methyl alcohol (blind)has non drinking uses, lock de ice windshield wash fluid in winter, cleaning agent, alcohol stoves and lanterns gas line de icer wear gloves it can go through skin. Waste not want not.
Over long periods of time your body will need mineral salts to make up the stuff lost in sweat, pee and evaporation, that water has no mineral content like reverse osmosis water.
Honestly that is why I spent money on berkey water systems gravity fed and cleans almost any type of water and last a long time plus cleanable. You can sometimes find the black filters on sale online for $90 a pair of black filters, you can use two 5 gallon buckets as the water containers to not spend on the stainless steel berkey, don’t waste money on the plastic berkey it breaks (personal experience).
If you filter the water through a shirt to remove large particle dirt and get a primer hand pump you can back flush and keep filters going for up to 6000 gallons per filter. When you look at it that way it is cheap. Easy to tesst failure you put red food dye in water filter will take it out of not change filter.
I personally have tested the berkey filters by putting contaminated water in and drinking the water on bottom. U have used beaver infested swamp water, rain water collected off roof with turkey poop and rotten leaves. You will find filter plugs up but once you back flush it it is good as new. You can tell how clean your water is by how fast it glows through and how long between cleanings the bird poop rain water was once every 4 gallons the filters where slime coated with brown dirt. With our well water we clean once every 6 months just because we decide to fliter is barely dirty.
The bird water 4 gallons takes a day 24 hours, well water 4 gallons in 3 hours. Beaver pond was 6 hours.
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namelus.
