Morgo
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Post by Morgo on Jan 19, 2022 20:59:54 GMT 10
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iceage
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Post by iceage on Jan 19, 2022 21:42:54 GMT 10
Ive got idodine tabs and a few lifestraws for personal use. Id rather boil water wherever i can and filter it through bandana or shemagh though. I reckon the berkey water filter setups are the go. www.purewater4life.com.au/
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blueshoes
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Post by blueshoes on Jan 20, 2022 11:44:27 GMT 10
Bags/camping gear: Life straw gox2, saywer minix2 and a bunch of purification tablets. Home, well its part of the above but the tank water goes through a 3 filter set up. 3 filter setup sounds interesting. Are you willing to give any more details?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2022 18:05:28 GMT 10
All three family dwellings have tank water. No fancy inline filters or anything, but that is how we grew up... half a dozen wrigglers in every glass.
One house has mains, if we lost it then it'd take an hour to turn a beer fermenter into a charcoal and sand water filter for kitchen use. I won't do it now... cuz, you know, beer. But we always have bags of charcoal and sand on hand.
I do have a Katadyn Pocket Water Filter if we had to go mobile.
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Post by ausprep130 on Mar 21, 2022 21:56:22 GMT 10
B.E.S.T. Inline water filter for filling water tanks from mains taps.
Browns Bag 20L gravity filter - filter out larger contaminants such as mud in river water before putting in a bucket for shower water OR before putting in LifeSaver 18L Jerry Can water filter
LifeSaver 18L Jerry Can water filter with a couple of spare 20000L filter cartridges for drinking water
Grayl 700ml capacity Geopress filter with half dozen spare filter cartridges (250L estimated life) for drinking water
Lifestraw.
and awaiting dispatch/delivery of a QuenchSea portable manual reverse osmosis filter.
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rosebud
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Post by rosebud on Sept 27, 2022 21:02:32 GMT 10
I've drunk from rainwater tanks all my life without filters. One of our underground water tanks even had small fish in it. I think Dad brought them back from a fishing trip up the river. We didn't start using filters for the rainwater tanks until 7 years ago when we bought this house with filters already in place. First the rainwater goes through a strainer, then there is a 5 micron sediment removal cartridge and a 5 micron taste and odour removal cartridge. I haven't bought a portable filter yet because I haven't needed it, but I've looked at them and should get one soon. I can always filter and boil water if I need to.
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Post by malewithatail on Sept 28, 2022 9:03:43 GMT 10
Much the same here, rain water is strained by a gauze filter, then settles in the tank. At the base is a 10 micron sediment filter after the pump, then its piped to the houses. I don't bother filtering the water I drink, but everyone has a stoneware type upright cartridge type filter for the troops drinking water. Animals just get dam water that is pumped from the dam to header tanks using excess solar power when the main battery's are charged.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
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Post by Stealth on Sept 28, 2022 20:00:03 GMT 10
We fairly recently bought a Berkey filter with the black carbon filters in it. I don't really trust it entirely to remove everything from our drinking water because the jury is out on whether or not their testing methods are effective. Safe to say we use it for flavour improvement for town water, and should SHTF and we need a clean water source we'll use it to filter the BIG gross stuff and improve the taste and then boil it to kill anything nasty that's still in it.
We also have lifestrawers/sawyer mini for emergency kits in the cars etc, but they're not our first line of defence by any means. Mostly because per liter they're pretty expensive. That can absolutely be said of the Berkey as well of course. But the spare filters for those work out cheaper over the long term than straws. Not to mention the convenience of just filling the top of the filter and having clean water from a tap.
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Post by rosebud on Sept 28, 2022 20:33:41 GMT 10
Today I bought a LifeStraw Personal water filter. It filters 4,000 litres of water. I don't know when I'll ever use it, but it's a bit of security if I ever do need it.
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Post by Stealth on Sept 29, 2022 8:26:42 GMT 10
Today I bought a LifeStraw Personal water filter. It filters 4,000 litres of water. I don't know when I'll ever use it, but it's a bit of security if I ever do need it. Lifestrawers are great to keep on hand for emergencies. I bought one a few years back for my dad. He travels all over grey nomad style, and he said that he's used it a few times when he's been in a town with pretty average tasting water. I've never used the ones that we have but it's definitely a good but of kit to have just in case.
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rosebud
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Post by rosebud on Sept 30, 2022 14:10:05 GMT 10
Today I bought a LifeStraw Personal water filter. It filters 4,000 litres of water. I don't know when I'll ever use it, but it's a bit of security if I ever do need it. Lifestrawers are great to keep on hand for emergencies. I bought one a few years back for my dad. He travels all over grey nomad style, and he said that he's used it a few times when he's been in a town with pretty average tasting water. I've never used the ones that we have but it's definitely a good but of kit to have just in case. Next Month I'll be driving to NSW to see family. On the way back I plan to camp in some free camps. I'll try out the LifeStraw then, probably with water straight out of the Murray.
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