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Clean Water Question

GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
edited November 2008 in General Discussion
Has anyone tried these?

http://www.purpurifierofwater.com/product_background.html
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I never saw it before, but it looks like it might be good to have should SHTF..
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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    They're fine for killing viruses and microorganisms, but they're best used in conjunction with a quality filter like a Berkey or a Katadyn.
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,224 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Good looking stuff. That is one area where my overall plan is severly lacking. Will be checking for some localy today, or ordering some online tomorrow.
    Thanks for posting.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Our Distiller cost a lot, but it gets cheaper (per gallon) with every passing day. ANNND, we are not drinking the chemicals that are in those purifying powders/tablets. We have wellwater, no additives, just what comes outta the ground. Turns out it has an acidity that is dissolving our pipes and making blue-green Copper Sulfate, and it has some Arsenic, and more stuff. It all falls out in the Distiller boiling chamber, or is boiled off. Total dissolved solids in our distilled water is less than 1 ppm, pH= 7.00, and it makes clear cubes for Scotch! Sterile, too!

    The two of us use nearly 2 Gallons per day between cooking and drinking. It uses 750 watts for three hours per run (2 a day).

    If you live in Southern Climes, there is a passive (Solar) powered one that Missionaries use all over the world.
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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by HandLoad
    Our Distiller cost a lot, but it gets cheaper (per gallon) with every passing day. ANNND, we are not drinking the chemicals that are in those purifying powders/tablets. We have wellwater, no additives, just what comes outta the ground. Turns out it has an acidity that is dissolving our pipes and making blue-green Copper Sulfate, and it has some Arsenic, and more stuff. It all falls out in the Distiller boiling chamber, or is boiled off. Total dissolved solids in our distilled water is less than 1 ppm, pH= 7.00, and it makes clear cubes for Scotch! Sterile, too!

    The two of us use nearly 2 Gallons per day between cooking and drinking. It uses 750 watts for three hours per run (2 a day).

    If you live in Southern Climes, there is a passive (Solar) powered one that Missionaries use all over the world.


    What kind of distiller are you using? I was considering a distiller, but went with a gravity fed filter for convenience and because it doesn't need an energy source.
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    Pure and Secure, "Mini Classic II". Made in Nebraska. All Medical Grade Stainless, Glass, and a few pieces of Medical grade Silicone hose connectors. Got it from the "Orphans" part of CCRANE.COM (favorite catalog of mine, but don't look because it will co$t you) - was open box return, so got it at a big discount. Still cost me over $500.

    You can contact the MFGR @ 1 (800) 875-5915.

    Have used this unit more than two runs per day since mid 2006. Zero problems, only change a (activated charcoal) filter every 6 Months.

    Quiet and simple - only two moving parts.
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  • 11BravoCrunchie11BravoCrunchie Member Posts: 33,423 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Any other military guys thinking this is a lot like iodine or chlorine tablets that they used to issue?
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  • HandLoadHandLoad Member Posts: 15,998 ✭
    edited November -1
    The packets shown probably have something like that, but they also have "Flocculants" that grab floating dirt, animules, and suchlike, and make it fall out of the water - OK, so long as you don't drink the last bit of each batch, where it has precipitated to. Then you have to wash out the container before it dries, in order to get the stuff out for the next run.

    The active ingredients, like Chlorine, Bromine or Iodine stay in solution for the most part, and you drink them, in whatever form they have become after forming compounds with the stuff in the suspect water.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    good thread...now problem...rural water pipeline about 15 miles to cabin at lake, have installed a big paper filter on input to get grit out but chlorine ??? taste of water is horrible (best water at home has us spoiled)...what will get chemicals out like this..filter or do you need to boil water to break chemical bond??????
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  • SpartacusSpartacus Member Posts: 14,415
    edited November -1
    quote:but Brita makes a pitcher type device


    we have well water with high sulfur and iron content. the Brita worked well, got out the iron and the sulfur smell.
    now we have a reverse osmosis system for the whole house. very efficient.
    my 2c
    tom
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  • ruger270manruger270man Member Posts: 9,361 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    good thread...now problem...rural water pipeline about 15 miles to cabin at lake, have installed a big paper filter on input to get grit out but chlorine ??? taste of water is horrible (best water at home has us spoiled)...what will get chemicals out like this..filter or do you need to boil water to break chemical bond??????


    Berkey filters will take out chlorine, no problem.

    I'm making my own.

    http://www.alpharubicon.com/kids/homemadeberkeydaire.htm
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