I’ve got water straws and a couple of pump units here and there. Guys would throw them away after a field exercise never having used them and I would snatch them up. I had a well put in at my house shortly after moving in, ostensibly to “water the yard” as the city charges you for every gallon consumed and then “adjusts” the sewage bill to collect on those gallons as used. I installed a cut out system with a hand pump in the case of loss of power. So if the grid goes down as long as nobody dumped something in the drinking water 700 miles north of here about 6 months ago I should be good. I will admit the well water is hard as nails and tastes like them too.
Cheers,
Craig6
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Berkey is good for larger amounts of water. Some othets pn the markets
Both, water is high on the priority list.
Not sure if you already know this or not, but you can filter debris out of water with a Tshirt by letting it leach the water from one container into another one. You roll the shirt, wet it and stick one end in each glass. You will still need to boil the water afterwards as it only gets the debri out and not micro organisms.
This is also a very slow process.
We have a straw in each pack and 2 different larger filtration systems, also have 225 gallons stored for immediate use.
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Pretty close to Bruce plus 12 dozen packed away. Plus a hand pumped well.
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I have a sawyer system for my family, but our well is very brackish (south Texas) so I’m exploring ways to distill the water. I’m not as worried about bugs and such, since I will have to boil to distill to get the salt out.
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@porschephille A good site for info on water distillation. https://waterfilterguru.com/
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Thanks! And thanks for the welcome!
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@Craig6 >> cry now or cry later. a water filter and softener water systems on your water supply will make the water taste better and stop corrosion of your plumbing. The damage to the plumbing will over time be more expensive than
A water softener system. Also a good idea to have your water tested to see what’s in it. PS: Stay thirsty my friend.
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@Blacky You peed in the mug, didn’t you. 
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Cant make that many bubbles.
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@Blacky You peed in the mug, didn’t you.
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Life straws in the packs, katahdin pump action for shtf/ base camping, aquasana at home. Have a Culligan whole house softener but haven’t used it for probably 20 years…We sell our reservoir water to the town down the hill, and our town seems to run on wells…never fluoridated either, even when flouride was a good additive 
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I keep something to collect, something to strain, something to filter, something to boil, and something to sterilize water (some things do more than one of the above). However, I’m worried about chemicals in my area. I don’t think any of the above will get chemical pollution, i.e. perticides, weed killer, fertilizer, other pollutants out of the water.
As a side note, it rains a lot around here (and snows). I might get another rain barrel that hooks up to a gutter downspout.
Also, we have a well and septic system with a filter/sanitizer/softener setup for the house. They used to suggest adding a gallon of bleach to the well every year or so, but now they say too many people were doing that and not to do anything. Without bleach many years ago, we were getting red stains from iron bacteria.
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Bleach is a good cheap option for water treatment in a BOB if you replace it every 6 months or so. A couple drops per liter and a 30 minute wait and your good to go. But I keep an unused Life Straw in my vehicle BOBs.
I bought a Burkey filter for long term at home situations. The stainless container was great but their filters are junk. After a couple years in storage the glue holding the filter to the base deteriorated allowing contaminated water to pass right through. Burkey would not replace my defective filters. There are other companies that make replacement filters for the Burkey system. Will have to wait and see if they are any good after long term storage.
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