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What is Potable Aqua?
Potable Aqua® is an iodine based tablet used to treat water and make it bacteriologically suitable for drinking. Each Potable Aqua tablet contains a proprietary compound called TGHP that incorporates 8 milligrams of germicidal iodine into each tablet of Potable Aqua.
It is an effervescent tablet which kills micro- organisms in water to prevent cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other water borne diseases. Tablets are available in a range of tablet sizes.
Can you use iodine to purify water?
The tincture is the same exact orangish red stuff that your mom probably put on your cuts and scrapes when you were a kid. Be careful not to confuse iodine with betadine, though. The two are different and only iodine is cleared as a safe, effective way to purify water.
When trying to research natural materials found in nature to build a reliable water filter it varies quite a bit. The basics I have found from top to bottom are:
1. Charcoal, Coal (anthracite)
2. fine sand
3. Garnet (gravel)
4. coarse gravel
and 5. cotton material (T-shirt or actual coffee filter)
usually around the (top) of a 2 litre bottle that has been cut in half
and would be inverted (turned upside down) and put into the lower half of the cut 2 litre bottle for catching the filtered water.
As I said the materials vary. Moss can be used and many other materials found
outside in a wooded area and even in the desert.
Myself, I have stocked up on tablets used for water purification and many of them. Each one purifies a gallon of water. I will want to use my brain for other things rather than try to memorize every type of material I could use to make a filter. Water purification tablets or filters will be useless if you don't have any water to purify.
If I were staying put i'd have plenty of water for quite awhile. a 1600 gl storage tank, gravity feed which it's source is my well. A full at the moment pond approximately covers 1.8 acres from the small stream to the spillway. I have used this pond to test 3 different portable filtering systems and probably have downed at least 4-5 gallons of it without getting sick or puking my guts out.
future plans to install another 800 gallon storage tank up on a hillside but burried and out of view which will be fed from the well and all feed lines buried is in the works. This 800 gallon tank will have a filtering system built in just as the house does where the main line comes into the house. The house structure is built on a 4 foot cinder block wall with 4 foot interior walls for support and the filtering system is located just inside the main cinder block wall before it enters the house from under the floor. I guess my main concern has always been having enough drinkable water and having the pond which there are 2 other property owners who's lines intersect in the middle of it. I don't want to rely totally on the pond because many know of it. The above ground tank could be spotted with a little recon if someone was to attempt it. The hidden tank will be impossible to locate for the average thirsty person and only the backhoe driver knows that there is something going to be burried on the hillside and he lives 40 miles away.
Water will become more valuable than gold and may become your most valuable bargaining chip. I have also saved every water bottle that we have used for over 1 year so far. I can't say how many i have but in total 16 30 gallon garbage bags full.
Some of these have come from ARES events I do communications for. Walks, runs and cycling races throughout the year where I man a rest/water stop and I take away all the bottles. I felt they would come in handy at a later time. I hope so because they take up a lot of valuable space.
I guess for water I feel secure enough but will still continue to purchase cases here and there and always have many cases as back-up before I have to start using other sources.
I have gone about 3 days without food of any kind but I had water. I became very weak and the thought of going just 24 hours without any water gives me the willys.
WATER, we really need it more than you think!
Many of us believe drinking liquids like fruit juice, tea, or soda will keep the body hydrated as well as water. The truth is these beverages contain copious amounts of sugar and salt that are absorbed and then flushed out of our system with the help of... water. Drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day helps prevent not only a dry mouth and throat, but also the onset of several disease and illnesses.
In the U.S., 3.9 trillion gallons of water are consumed per month, with the average American using 176 gallons of water per day, according to Save The Water. Although we can survive for a month or so without eating food, we can only do a week or so without drinking water. Since the average human body is 75 percent water, with blood 92 percent water, bones 22 percent water, and muscles 75 percent water, it’s no surprise our immune system depends on our water intake.
In Get Skinny Be Happy’s infographic “Got Water? Why Dehydration Is Making You Fat And Sick,” it states the process of dehydration starts even before we begin to feel thirsty. Sipping water throughout the day is the best way to combat thirst. Drinking a nice cool glass of water as soon as we awaken will help boost up blood pressure to normal levels and become a way to prep the stomach before ingesting foods.
Keeping the body fully hydrated is essential for heart health. When the body is dehydrated, the blood becomes thicker causing resistance to blood flow, resulting in elevated blood pressure. Dehydration can also lead to a rise in blood cholesterol. This is the body’s response to prevent water loss from the cells. High cholesterol and high blood pressure can further increase the risk of coronary heart disease, says the American Heart Association.
Dehydration can also lead to an increased risk of obesity, affiliated with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer, among many others. However, this can be prevented by drinking two 8-ounce glasses of water before breakfast, lunch, and dinner, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. This can help keep weight off for at least a year.
Regularly drinking water speeds up our metabolism and makes us feel more “full” while promoting good physical, mental, and emotional health.
WATER, keeps the body healthy, keeps the mind healthy and keeps your mental state healthy, your survival depends on it.
Potable Aqua® is an iodine based tablet used to treat water and make it bacteriologically suitable for drinking. Each Potable Aqua tablet contains a proprietary compound called TGHP that incorporates 8 milligrams of germicidal iodine into each tablet of Potable Aqua.
It is an effervescent tablet which kills micro- organisms in water to prevent cholera, typhoid, dysentery and other water borne diseases. Tablets are available in a range of tablet sizes.
Can you use iodine to purify water?
The tincture is the same exact orangish red stuff that your mom probably put on your cuts and scrapes when you were a kid. Be careful not to confuse iodine with betadine, though. The two are different and only iodine is cleared as a safe, effective way to purify water.
When trying to research natural materials found in nature to build a reliable water filter it varies quite a bit. The basics I have found from top to bottom are:
1. Charcoal, Coal (anthracite)
2. fine sand
3. Garnet (gravel)
4. coarse gravel
and 5. cotton material (T-shirt or actual coffee filter)
usually around the (top) of a 2 litre bottle that has been cut in half
and would be inverted (turned upside down) and put into the lower half of the cut 2 litre bottle for catching the filtered water.
As I said the materials vary. Moss can be used and many other materials found
outside in a wooded area and even in the desert.
Myself, I have stocked up on tablets used for water purification and many of them. Each one purifies a gallon of water. I will want to use my brain for other things rather than try to memorize every type of material I could use to make a filter. Water purification tablets or filters will be useless if you don't have any water to purify.
If I were staying put i'd have plenty of water for quite awhile. a 1600 gl storage tank, gravity feed which it's source is my well. A full at the moment pond approximately covers 1.8 acres from the small stream to the spillway. I have used this pond to test 3 different portable filtering systems and probably have downed at least 4-5 gallons of it without getting sick or puking my guts out.
future plans to install another 800 gallon storage tank up on a hillside but burried and out of view which will be fed from the well and all feed lines buried is in the works. This 800 gallon tank will have a filtering system built in just as the house does where the main line comes into the house. The house structure is built on a 4 foot cinder block wall with 4 foot interior walls for support and the filtering system is located just inside the main cinder block wall before it enters the house from under the floor. I guess my main concern has always been having enough drinkable water and having the pond which there are 2 other property owners who's lines intersect in the middle of it. I don't want to rely totally on the pond because many know of it. The above ground tank could be spotted with a little recon if someone was to attempt it. The hidden tank will be impossible to locate for the average thirsty person and only the backhoe driver knows that there is something going to be burried on the hillside and he lives 40 miles away.
Water will become more valuable than gold and may become your most valuable bargaining chip. I have also saved every water bottle that we have used for over 1 year so far. I can't say how many i have but in total 16 30 gallon garbage bags full.
Some of these have come from ARES events I do communications for. Walks, runs and cycling races throughout the year where I man a rest/water stop and I take away all the bottles. I felt they would come in handy at a later time. I hope so because they take up a lot of valuable space.
I guess for water I feel secure enough but will still continue to purchase cases here and there and always have many cases as back-up before I have to start using other sources.
I have gone about 3 days without food of any kind but I had water. I became very weak and the thought of going just 24 hours without any water gives me the willys.
WATER, we really need it more than you think!
Many of us believe drinking liquids like fruit juice, tea, or soda will keep the body hydrated as well as water. The truth is these beverages contain copious amounts of sugar and salt that are absorbed and then flushed out of our system with the help of... water. Drinking eight 8-ounce glasses of water every day helps prevent not only a dry mouth and throat, but also the onset of several disease and illnesses.
In the U.S., 3.9 trillion gallons of water are consumed per month, with the average American using 176 gallons of water per day, according to Save The Water. Although we can survive for a month or so without eating food, we can only do a week or so without drinking water. Since the average human body is 75 percent water, with blood 92 percent water, bones 22 percent water, and muscles 75 percent water, it’s no surprise our immune system depends on our water intake.
In Get Skinny Be Happy’s infographic “Got Water? Why Dehydration Is Making You Fat And Sick,” it states the process of dehydration starts even before we begin to feel thirsty. Sipping water throughout the day is the best way to combat thirst. Drinking a nice cool glass of water as soon as we awaken will help boost up blood pressure to normal levels and become a way to prep the stomach before ingesting foods.
Keeping the body fully hydrated is essential for heart health. When the body is dehydrated, the blood becomes thicker causing resistance to blood flow, resulting in elevated blood pressure. Dehydration can also lead to a rise in blood cholesterol. This is the body’s response to prevent water loss from the cells. High cholesterol and high blood pressure can further increase the risk of coronary heart disease, says the American Heart Association.
Dehydration can also lead to an increased risk of obesity, affiliated with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and cancer, among many others. However, this can be prevented by drinking two 8-ounce glasses of water before breakfast, lunch, and dinner, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. This can help keep weight off for at least a year.
Regularly drinking water speeds up our metabolism and makes us feel more “full” while promoting good physical, mental, and emotional health.
WATER, keeps the body healthy, keeps the mind healthy and keeps your mental state healthy, your survival depends on it.
