PissedOffAmerican
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Hey guys! Was wondering if anyone has any knowledge about water filters/pitchers and what's good quality. On a side note, will boiling water remove flouride?
i might have drunk from moorland streams here 20 years ago but not now.I keep a Sawyer mini filter in my grab and go bag. After I bought it I tried it out in some cloudy water. It seemed to work fine. The majority of mountain creeks, springs and lakes around here are clean during the summer, fall and winter. And I don't hesitate to drink directly from them. With spring runoff they can get a little muddy at times.
I’m sure those filters are good, but wonder about the longevity of any cartridge filter. I have eight ceramic ones and four charcoal ones. The charcoal ones will only do so much water before becoming ineffective, but the ceramic can be scrubbed and used over and over. The longevity was the reason I chose it. The bad side to the ceramic is it’s brittle and can break if dropped, (which is why I got extras). With the cartridge filters I would consider getting some spares since you don’t know how many people, and animals, you may be providing drinking water for. Also another thing that will greatly increase their life is rig up a pre filter to catch as much particulate as you can before filtering the water. Even a few cotton tee shirts will stop a lot of small particles from clogging you filter prematurely.I don't have one, but from what I've read, the Berkey with the PF2 filter is the one to get.
You never know what was buried 80 or 100 years ago. Not to mention a dead animal, animal droppings, etc. good advice is always filter water. Even in a place as pristine as arctic is, if you’re several miles from home and get severe direaha and cramps getting back could prove to be tough. In any shtf situation it could too easily be a death sentence.Except for a few springs up north, I never drink untreated water.
I've even heard (from my grandfather) that people have become horribly ill from drinking fresh spring water at the source because there was a cemetary nearby.
Human beings can and have been really vile. The cemetery thing is a real concern. A lot of the embalming fluids used over the last century were really poisonous. Just recently have they started using concrete vaults to slow down the chemicals leaching into the groundwater, but even those won’t be watertight forever, why they don’t outlaw the nasty chemicals is beyond me.I agree with you Brent.
Buried things can, evidentally, cause groundwater problems for decades.
It's considered a war crime and a crime against humanity (according to the Geneva Convention) to poison wells in warfare.
This happened in the past when soldiers would dump dead bodies down wells so that the well would be unfit to provide water to guerrillas.
The only problem is that a dead body can render a well and nearby wells unsafe for up to 20 years, so this unnecessarily impacts poverty-stricken civilians who may need to rely on the well for survival.
I agree.Human beings can and have been really vile. The cemetery thing is a real concern. A lot of the embalming fluids used over the last century were really poisonous. Just recently have they started using concrete vaults to slow down the chemicals leaching into the groundwater, but even those won’t be watertight forever, why they don’t outlaw the nasty chemicals is beyond me.
I don't understand either.what I don't understand is;you put the corps in a box,bury it,then why the hell do you have to embalm it?? it's maggot food after you close the pit with dirt.
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