Water

People are now coming down with ailments from non-purified water that they are using for drinking, cooking and washing themselves, 82 have died and hundreds infected (listeriosis):https://qz.com/1200949/cape-town-water- … yptr=yahooStatistics: Poste…

http://time.com/cape-town-south-africa-water-crisis/article from Time from a week ago – new info – good personal perspective of the situation from the Cape Town residing reporter ….I luv the one revelation – the reporter kicks herself NOW for believ…

dmwalsh568 wrote:Just read an article with more info on what’s happening now…<https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/africa/cape-town-water-crisis-intl/index.html>Highlights:And as the crisis has taken hold, Capetonians have not been doing enough to c…

Just read an article with more info on what’s happening now…<https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/01/africa/cape-town-water-crisis-intl/index.html>Highlights:And as the crisis has taken hold, Capetonians have not been doing enough to curb their water u…

When we bought our first 40 acres, the next thing we bought was a drill rig. I was lucky that I had married a witch. She can find water. We later bought 2 more 40s and she found good water on them.Statistics: Posted by JoyDog — Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:04 a…

When we were looking for our "homestead" property, the top thing on our list was that it had a private well (a lot of places around here are on a "well share"…meaning several properties pay in to get water from somebody else’s we…

Cin wrote:I’ve mentioned this before on other threads. The thing that made me start planning and looking for a bug out location was a hurricane in Florida. Think it was Andrew. I was watching the news and some generous soul filled an 18-wheeler with…

Cin wrote:Without water, people will turn into wild, hideous creatures without thought for anyone but themselves.This is the truth, bottom line.Mrs FPStatistics: Posted by ForwardPreppers — Wed Jan 31, 2018 6:10 pm

I’ve mentioned this before on other threads. The thing that made me start planning and looking for a bug out location was a hurricane in Florida. Think it was Andrew. I was watching the news and some generous soul filled an 18-wheeler with ice. He t…

Illini Warrior wrote:kotka73 wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5315733/Day-Zero-Water-shut-looms-South-Africas-Cape-Town.html"’Day Zero’ water shut-off looms in South Africa and locals queue up at taps as reality sets in that Cape…

kotka73 wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-5315733/Day-Zero-Water-shut-looms-South-Africas-Cape-Town.html"’Day Zero’ water shut-off looms in South Africa and locals queue up at taps as reality sets in that Cape Town may be the worl…

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/art … -Town.html"’Day Zero’ water shut-off looms in South Africa and locals queue up at taps as reality sets in that Cape Town may be the world’s first major city to run dry."Can you imagine that in any …

Flightnurse1 wrote:After reading up more on the situation, it seems now gangs are moving in to water distribution points and water is becoming bitcoin. The country never thought to drill wells and desalination plants are not opening for years. Going t…

After reading up more on the situation, it seems now gangs are moving in to water distribution points and water is becoming bitcoin. The country never thought to drill wells and desalination plants are not opening for years. Going to be a lot learned …

After reading up more on the situation, it seems now gangs are moving in to water distribution points and water is becoming bitcoin. The country never thought to drill wells and desalination plants are not opening for years. Going to be a lot learned …

Drought is only one of the problems! Nor is it just race or black and white. When our system finally grinds to a halt, being the odd man out (successful or conservative) – will get you killed in a hurry.South African Farm MurdersSouth Africa has an…

So this is the first drought they have ever had??!! Didn’t someone think desalinization PRIOR?!?! Statistics: Posted by Stahlrosen — Sun Jan 28, 2018 8:03 pm

Been watching it for while, here’s a good article on that and what they are expecting in the future, don’t sound too good for them:https://mashable.com/2018/01/24/cape-to … 29wa8pqiqrStatistics: Posted by rickdun — Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:21 pm

Been reading about it. Long term drought plus not enough conservation equals impending SHTF. Last I heard once the reservoir drops to 10% left they’ll shut off the taps and only allow people to collect 50 liters per person per day at predetermined dis…

Hey all, anyone else watching the unfolding disaster of Cape Town S. Africa running out of water by April 2018? Can’t imagine 4 million people without water. Didn’t they realize this was coming!Statistics: Posted by Flightnurse1 — Sun Jan 28, 2018 6:0…

LifeStraw has a variety of products that are excellent for different situations. For a survival situation It is great to have some of the personal water filters along with something bigger like the lifestraw mission. Both of these water filtration sys…

LifeStraw has a variety of products that are excellent for different situations. For a survival situation It is great to have some of the personal water filters along with something bigger like the lifestraw mission. Both of these water filtration sys…

I found this article on how to purify water, some of which is by using pine tree limbs and cilantro, very interesting article:https://www.wikihow.com/Purify-WaterStatistics: Posted by rickdun — Wed Dec 20, 2017 2:02 pm

There was a conversation about the Life Straw vs the Sawyer Mini, on an "A.N.T.S" thread for the book ‘One Second After'( click on blue link, to read) I looked at the Sawyer Mini after reading that thread, and like the Sawyer one better. To…

sent the link over to my BIL – he just shuts down the pond and koi just winter over at the pond bottom ….Statistics: Posted by Illini Warrior — Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:56 am

sent the link over to my BIL – he just shuts down the pond and koi just winter over at the pond bottom ….Statistics: Posted by Illini Warrior — Wed Oct 18, 2017 6:56 am

Sorry old news. Been doing this for years. Simply bring up the warmer water from the bottom the way any de-icer works. Pump is one way rotating prop powered by electric or wind is another. Used to sell pond de-icers back in the 70’s that worked on …

I have bought Livpure Ro water purifiers because last month I have been blessed with a baby girl. Doctor suggested to use ro filtered water. According to me Livpure Ro is the best water purifier.

Statistics: Posted by George12 — Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:50 am

Photon Guy wrote:
Oh but we do emit light. We don’t see it as its outside our visible spectrum but look at somebody and use an infrared viewer and you will see what I mean…

That’s what we call someone’s “aura” and some of us CAN see them (some can see them better than others)

Statistics: Posted by IceFire — Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:26 pm

Photon Guy wrote:

dmwalsh568 wrote:I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Oh but we do emit light. We don’t see it as its outside our visible spectrum but look at somebody and use an infrared viewer and you will see what I mean. Photon was a big laser tag game, the first of its kind, and was really popular during the 80s. That is how I came up with my user name.

Ok, I had forgotten electromagnetism 101, that all electromagnetic waves are both waves and photons, and instead was focusing on visible light. So I admit you’re right, but I’d still disengage from someone claiming that our cells need light.

Statistics: Posted by dmwalsh568 — Fri Sep 22, 2017 6:48 am

dmwalsh568 wrote:
I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Oh but we do emit light. We don’t see it as its outside our visible spectrum but look at somebody and use an infrared viewer and you will see what I mean. Photon was a big laser tag game, the first of its kind, and was really popular during the 80s. That is how I came up with my user name.

Statistics: Posted by Photon Guy — Thu Sep 21, 2017 9:45 pm

Photon Guy wrote:
I was recently at a prepper event and the event of course included water purification and there were booths where people were selling various devices for purifying water. I did not see any water distillers like what I’ve got but I did talk to this fellow who was selling some kind of filtering device. We talked about distilled water and he mentioned that somebody else had said to him that distilled water loses its ability to transfer light into our cells. Supposedly our cells all contain light and water helps with that. With distilled water it loses that ability so it might not be a good idea to drink distilled water all the time. It has to do with the boiling, when you boil water that’s what causes it to lose that ability. Anybody know anything about this?

I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Now if he was talking about electrolytes then yes that’s an issue but you’d have to drink a lot of water without eating salt, potassium, etc. – search on water intoxication for more info. Some runners can have issues if they drink just water during a race and no rehydration solutions. I suppose distilled could be worse than tap but not drastically.

Statistics: Posted by dmwalsh568 — Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:27 pm

Photon Guy wrote:
I was recently at a prepper event and the event of course included water purification and there were booths where people were selling various devices for purifying water. I did not see any water distillers like what I’ve got but I did talk to this fellow who was selling some kind of filtering device. We talked about distilled water and he mentioned that somebody else had said to him that distilled water loses its ability to transfer light into our cells. Supposedly our cells all contain light and water helps with that. With distilled water it loses that ability so it might not be a good idea to drink distilled water all the time. It has to do with the boiling, when you boil water that’s what causes it to lose that ability. Anybody know anything about this?

I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Now if he was talking about electrolytes then yes that’s an issue but you’d have to drink a lot of water without eating salt, potassium, etc. – search on water intoxication for more info. Some runners can have issues if they drink just water during a race and no rehydration solutions. I suppose distilled could be worse than tap but not drastically.

Statistics: Posted by dmwalsh568 — Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:27 pm

Photon Guy wrote:
I was recently at a prepper event and the event of course included water purification and there were booths where people were selling various devices for purifying water. I did not see any water distillers like what I’ve got but I did talk to this fellow who was selling some kind of filtering device. We talked about distilled water and he mentioned that somebody else had said to him that distilled water loses its ability to transfer light into our cells. Supposedly our cells all contain light and water helps with that. With distilled water it loses that ability so it might not be a good idea to drink distilled water all the time. It has to do with the boiling, when you boil water that’s what causes it to lose that ability. Anybody know anything about this?

I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Now if he was talking about electrolytes then yes that’s an issue but you’d have to drink a lot of water without eating salt, potassium, etc. – search on water intoxication for more info. Some runners can have issues if they drink just water during a race and no rehydration solutions. I suppose distilled could be worse than tap but not drastically.

Statistics: Posted by dmwalsh568 — Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:27 pm

Photon Guy wrote:
I was recently at a prepper event and the event of course included water purification and there were booths where people were selling various devices for purifying water. I did not see any water distillers like what I’ve got but I did talk to this fellow who was selling some kind of filtering device. We talked about distilled water and he mentioned that somebody else had said to him that distilled water loses its ability to transfer light into our cells. Supposedly our cells all contain light and water helps with that. With distilled water it loses that ability so it might not be a good idea to drink distilled water all the time. It has to do with the boiling, when you boil water that’s what causes it to lose that ability. Anybody know anything about this?

I guess I watch too much sci-fi since I immediately thought you’re a hologram trolling us biological entities. I mean someone who calls himself photon guy should know that other than a few bioluminescent creatures nothing living generates light. If someone said that to me IRL I’d nod politely and slowly back away trying to not spook them since they are bat guano crazy.

Now if he was talking about electrolytes then yes that’s an issue but you’d have to drink a lot of water without eating salt, potassium, etc. – search on water intoxication for more info. Some runners can have issues if they drink just water during a race and no rehydration solutions. I suppose distilled could be worse than tap but not drastically.

Statistics: Posted by dmwalsh568 — Thu Sep 21, 2017 3:27 pm

So it like eating nothing but rabbit. no fat and you loose dietary balance.

Statistics: Posted by sageprice — Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:40 pm

What are the risks of drinking distilled water?

The main risks of drinking only distilled water are associated with the lack of dissolved minerals, such as magnesium and calcium.

Some of the adverse effects of drinking just distilled or low mineral water include:

a flat taste that many people find unappealing, leading to reduced water consumption

a decrease in the body’s metabolic function

an increase in urine output that could result in electrolyte imbalance

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317698.php

Statistics: Posted by daaswampman — Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:42 pm

sounds like smoke blown up trouser legs. Does anyone have a research paper link?

Statistics: Posted by sageprice — Wed Sep 20, 2017 3:06 pm

I was recently at a prepper event and the event of course included water purification and there were booths where people were selling various devices for purifying water. I did not see any water distillers like what I’ve got but I did talk to this fellow who was selling some kind of filtering device. We talked about distilled water and he mentioned that somebody else had said to him that distilled water loses its ability to transfer light into our cells. Supposedly our cells all contain light and water helps with that. With distilled water it loses that ability so it might not be a good idea to drink distilled water all the time. It has to do with the boiling, when you boil water that’s what causes it to lose that ability. Anybody know anything about this?

Statistics: Posted by Photon Guy — Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:22 am

Try Mcmaster Carr. It’s where we get ours from. https://www.mcmaster.com/#=19fgyey

Statistics: Posted by derhaashund — Sun Sep 17, 2017 8:02 pm

I don’t know what the name of the container is but I have an idea for the puppies! Kiddie pools. You could store your 5 gallon h2o containers in them when you don’t need it also. I buy those little splash pools at the Dollar General at the end of summer for like 5-7 dollars. I can’t remember what size… But the smaller one fits 2-3 toddlers and it’s like $5.00 on sale. Regular price is like 10.00…Any how I also have kitty litter but I also got a piece of astro turf! Bought it at home depot for like 15 bucks? Works perfectly for my big dog! She’s a biiiigggg girl…and I really didn’t want to have to store those pee pee pads….it works pretty good for short term. I can’t say it’s a good long term solution but for a couple of days to a couple of weeks its perfect. And you could buy all the stuff u needed to last quite a while for less than the 55.00 your spending on the container…just a thought!
If you do figure out what those containers are called I’d be interested. Sounds like something I could think up a really good use for!

Statistics: Posted by conjomen — Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:38 am