alright so weather like this everybody focuses on the basics which they should
food water shelter fire when snow on the ground coming down everybody's worried
about getting shelter getting that fire started before the before the Sun goes
down and that's good but the one thing that we often overlook is dehydration
you have to drink water I have seen guys go down from dehydration doing
cross-country skiing you have to still gather properly and properly treat water
I always want to find the cleanest source of water that you can find in
this case I've got a nice flowing river it's got ice starting to form around the
edges but it for the most part it's fairly clean water I don't want to just
go filling up my canteens because I'm tired I'm run down the snows coming down
I know I need to get a fire I still have to have the presence of mind that I I
can't just be drinking this stuff I can't take the chance of getting sick
all right so I have to treat water before I go putting it into my water
receptacles all right so we're gonna first take another container in this
case I like using this little collapsible bucket I have I can actually
dip this stuff down in the water all right now that's enough water to fill
both my bottles I'm here to tell you though that's not the cleanest stuff not
sure I want to drink that the way it is right now all right so the snow is led
up on us a little bit and we've acquired our water from our water source a nice
little creek and we're going to go about purifying it now all right so when you
start talking about chemical treatment there's all different kinds of
techniques to do there's all different kinds of products on the market some
have pros some of cons that what's the difference which one you want to carry
well you can just buy what's on the shelf but again knowledge is power try
them out you know figure out what's best for your mission the first one I want to
talk about is the old reliable iodine tablets these things
have been around forever I grew up with them in the army a small little ball and
keeping your pack last you forever all right but very very small tablets
depending on how clean or cold the water is you want to put one or two tablets in
it we're going to do just one water out of our creek it may look a little cloudy
but it's not bad drop it in now you're going to wait
about three minutes you know well you gonna wait about five minutes let it
dissolve now you notice I'm leaving the caps on loose now after I wait five
minutes I'm then going to shake it a little bit and let some of the water
come out it covers the threads on the bottle and then I'm going to let it sit
for thirty minutes that iodine now is going to kill everything that's in there
works great has worked great forever the only disadvantage of this is well now my
water tastes like iodine and not too bad but lots of drinking of water the iodine
it's just not a good taste it's really not so fast forward right now
potable aqua has got a new product but now again it's been out for a while but
if you haven't seen it before it has two bottles you'll see I taped them together
that way I can't lose them in my pack right the first bottle the one up top is
it's your regular bottle of iodine you work you use it the same way as I did
this other one one tablet goes in there you've got to wait thirty minutes still
have to wait thirty minutes however once I've waited the thirty minutes and this
is now clean drinking water I turn it over I take a tablet from my other
bottle if you use two tablets put two in but I only use one iodine I'm going to
use one of these now this PA plus plus tablet all it does is it neutralizes the
taste of that iodine now I've waited the thirty minutes my water is clear ready
to drink but it tastes like iodine by adding that other tablet all I've got to
do is just kind of let it dissolve for a while three minutes later the tablet
doesn't even have to fully dissolve I weighed about three
minutes I can now drink this water doesn't have the taste of iodine in it
anymore so good product good stuff but again you're treating with this it does
not get out the heavy metals does not get out any of the chemicals that are in
the water all right so another chemical treating process that a lot of people
talk about is using your normal chlorine bleach that Clorox that you have in your
house yeah again pros and cons if you're going to use chlorine bleach make sure
that it's regular unscented right the the formula that you want to use is two
drops per quarter water or six drops of bleach per gallon of water that's fine
personally I'm not going to walk around through the woods carrying a big ol
bottle of bleach number one number two if that bleach has been sitting in the
laundry room for six months it's about half its normal strength now I'm having
to put 12 drops of bleach into a gallon of water and it's going to taste like
I'm drinking out of a swimming pool not a big fan of it but if you're going to
do it find a smaller container whether like I use these little eyedropper
bottles but even filling a small container like this with bleach it's
still a rough chemical it's hard to transport you can't fly with it it
always seems the leak everywhere it's just not fun to use but if that's all
you have is bleach again two drops per quart you've got to let it sit for
thirty minutes but after that it it's it's okay to use but again not a big fan
of it another way to do it is with a chemical called chlorine dioxide now
it's available in tablets and drops i chlorine dioxide is awesome because it's
you don't get the taste of the bleach right they actually add chlorine dioxide
to chlorine water to get rid of the taste of the chlorine it's great stuff I
mentioned it's available on tablets and drops these are the Aqua Mara tablets
they're roughly the same size as those little iodine tablets they're
individually sealed so if you want to just take
a few of them to toss wherever they're good to do
small little tablet
a little bit larger than iodine tablet all right now you take one per litre of water
drop it in just that easy all right the disadvantage of this is
for these tablets I have to wait four hours now there's no bleach taste at all
there's no iodine taste but I have to wait for hours now if I've just been
hiking through the mountains I finally get to that stream and oh I'm thirsty I
haven't had water for a while I fill up my bottles I've dropped my tablets and
now I have to wait four more hours I don't want to wait no I don't I want
something that I can use right now or at least within 15 minutes 30 minutes so
while these are great for travel for an emergency situation for everyday use
that the tablets just aren't a thing for me
now the same company they have another product for chlorine dioxide except it's
in drops works roughly the same way except all you do is you take it come to
the little little cap and you pour eight drops from point from Part A and eight
drops from from Part B you just swish that around a little bit all right
you're going to wait five minutes for this all to mix properly and then you're
going to add it pour it into a quart of water and you're going to have the same
strength of chlorine dioxide except now I only have to wait fifteen minutes
instead of having to wait four hours for the tablet so it makes much much quicker
so again, chlorine dioxide kills everything it's great
the drops work fast you don't get the taste of chlorine you don't get the
taste of the iodine but again it does not get out
heavy metals does not get out chemicals actually that's a great technique
personally I like that I like the chlorine dioxide drops alright so we've been dealing with
fairly clean water that we got out of our Creek back here but what about if we
didn't have a good clean source tells me that that may not look clean it's pretty
clean how about if you had like a nasty cruddy water that you like all that you
could find was like a tire track out in the middle of nowhere if you've got
nasty cruddy water like this I dug up off the bottom of the side little pool
over here you can just see the nasty stuff just floating around in this thing
iodine tablet or chlorine tablet I ain't putting that in me I'm not I'm not doing
it so how do we get around it the military's got a new product that
they're using that's called Cloroflox been around for a while I actually use Cloroflox
to treat a couple canteens that I filled out of a tire track in Africa it was
some nasty water didn't really need to do it kind of wanted to put it to the
test and I'll tell you what works great easy to do we take our container with
our nasty water again try to get the cleanest water you have but if this is
all you've got clora flux works awesome on it all right
so you're going to take one of these little sachets different models it comes
also in tablets but the one that the military is currently issuing it comes
in little sachets comes in a nice little as a nice little camouflage bag with a
zipper on top toss it in your kit doesn't make any noise doesn't weigh
anything but this is a single-dose satchet
alright the wort is really really nasty you'd put in two of these but one or two
but at a minimum one whole satchet so open it up all you do is you dump it in
open this other one up I think we're going to rock two on this thing it's
looking pretty funky same thing going to pour it in alright so I've got two in
there now all I'm going to do is I'm going to shake it up for one minute to
dissolve now the whole point of klore flocks is it's going to use the chlorine
dioxide to kill everything that's in it but it's also got the flux in it that's
going to coagulate all this sediment all this organic material
alright so I'll shake it up real good
and now I'm going to let that sit for three minutes alright so we've weighed
out our three minutes you can already see it starting to separate alright
we're going to do is we're going to swirl it around for 30 seconds now I
know I'm mixing it all back together that's fine but what I'm doing is I'm
getting Millau and all the chemicals to touch the top and the sides of the
container that weren't being touched before so we're going to do this for 30
seconds
getting all the stuff off the sides
after our 30 seconds is up now we're going to sit it down
warm weather just let it sit for seven minutes but because it's it's a little
cold out here we're going to wait the full 15 minutes recommended all right
all right so we've waited our 15 minutes you can see well this water was cruddy
it is separated most of the organic material down to the bottom some of the
really light stuff again I when I was scooping I'm getting stuff off the top
of the water also so some of it was still floating some of it that's just
some nasty stuff at the bottom there's still some particulate matter that's
floating in the middle here alright the next step is you're going to take a
clean container this case I'll take my wide mouth Nalgene bottle and you
have to strain this now they recommend manufacturer recommends flannel when are
you ever going to have flannel with you guys you can get by with just a t-shirt
put a t-shirt over it over my bottle and then all I'm going to do is pour this
through and I don't know if you can see it sloshing but it's it's like been
gelled inside there alright
pour it slow now when it starts overflowing the top of your t-shirt the
mouth that means you've literally caught so
much of that snot on your t-shirt that you've clogged all the pores piece of
cake move to a move to a new clean piece of t-shirt now obviously would you use
water this dirty no always use the cleanest water source that you have
available but if this is all you've got is nasty water that you would never ever
think about putting in your body here to tell you this this is going to get it as
clean as possible this stuff is pouring out like jello syrup actually more like
the morning after the frat party after too much tequila not that I've ever
drank that much alright so you get the idea that well not a hundred percent
clear that is lightyears above what we started at before
that's actually pretty good another water purification method that I hear
about is calcium hypochloride people talk about in a survival situation
you've got to have tons of pool shock for cleaning water and don't get me
wrong it's awesome for at your house for purifying water long term a pound of you
know this 1 pound bag of pool shock it'll clean 3000 gallons of water it
works awesome it really does but for walking around in
the woods for traveling no not so much and here's why it's chlorine it cleans
the same way as using the bleach does this will keep forever so in your house
it works so much better than storing gallons of bleach yes but for traveling
not so much right so step 1 all right you're going to take you need to make a
stock treating liquid first and you do that by taking a teaspoon of this stuff
alright and you're going to take it and you pour that into 2 gallons of water
now that doesn't make two gallons of water that you can drink what that makes
is two gallons of water that you can then treat other water with all right so
what you're wanting to do is you want one part of that liquid 400 parts of
water being treated so what does that mean what that means is if I'm trying to
make clean drinking water from my house I then take one cup of that two gallon
solution and I dump it into one hundred cups of regular untreated water that
will give me a hundred basically 100 hundred 1 cups of now potable water for
my family to use at my house that's fine but it doesn't break down into a
equation that you could use for a normal 1 quart container you can't say well I'm
going to take one granule of this stuff and drop it in a quart of water and
expect it to work the math just doesn't work that well right so for long
long-term storage pool shock is great for treating large amounts of water at a
household or a small village complex it works great but for traveling around for
hiking for backpacking it pulls shocks just not the way to go stick with one of
the other proven methods so anyways that's all at different ways that you
can purify water we talked about all of them everything from boiling water all
the way down they use in the UV light they all have pros they all have cons
determine what your individual mission is and then just remember knowledge is
power try the different types out see maybe you like to taste the one better
than the other maybe you don't like waiting for hours you only want to wait
15 minutes weigh the pros and cons find out what works best for you and then
always plan backups right filter an UV filter and tablets try them both try the
different ways figure out what works both for you and don't forget to check
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