So what water filters are best (VANITY - attention preppers)

Vanity | 11/10/2010 | surroundedbyblue

[surroundedbyblue]

Ok so I am new to all of this stuff. I need some advice about storing food & water from all of you who are much more informed than me. Please & thank you!!!

[Nachum]

Hi,

I checked out the Berkey site and the order page says that the system is not available in California. Do you know why?

[houeto]

For portable, I have a Jungle Bucket. You can find it on the internet.

[TNoldman]

ping water storage

[ChocChipCookie]

Have you heard of the WAPI? It’s very low-tech, costs about $9 or so at www.sunoven.com. It’s a water pasteurization indicator. It won’t filter your water but will let you know when water (and milk) have reached the temperature for pasteurization.

Berkeys can filter thousands of gallons of water before the filter needs to be replaced. There are also directions on the internet for making your own ceramic filter.

[sockmonkey]

My bit of advice is don’t buy stuff you wouldn’t eat normally. If you hate spam now, you will still hate it when times are bad. If you’ve never been a fan of leather breeches beans, and Textured Vegetable Protein, you won’t be just because TSHTF.

Also, despite it’s shorter shelf life than nonfat dry milk, I like Nido Powdered Whole Milk from Nestle. Also, for baking, SACO powdered buttermilk.

Also, I noticed on a link from ferfal’s blogspot, the price of British Berkfield water filters is a lot less than they used to be. If you buy a water filter, buy coffee filters as a prefilter for any icky stuff that would clog up your berkey filter, and shorten it’s life.

Get a firearm, and become proficient with it.

[listenhillary]

I’m really not stalking you, but I have been on this thread also. ;)

Similar thinking I suppose.

[listenhillary]

Mentioned up thread I think

http://doultonusa.com/HTML%20pages/water_filters_for_militaries.htm
CeraGrav model LP5 can produce over 50 gallons per day (GPD) of safe delicious drinking water.

For microbiologically effectiveness the ceramic shell is self-sterilized (no need for boiling) and **can be cleaned up to 60 times before is worn off.**

[Marie Antoinette]

Yep, I think we’re all concerned about the same issues. Have you been reading the food price inflation threads, too? ;)

[listenhillary]

I have. Laurie was going to do some Sams club stocking up this week.

[NetLiberty]

If you ran it full out 8 hours a day producing clean water, what is a “long time?”

Before we switched over to distilling our own water, we used it every day for about 8 years. When we put it in storage, the filters were/are still quite usable and ready for backup filtration when needed (for example, in a power failure). I think the filters themselves are rated to last for many thousands of gallons.

[ModelBreaker]

“Before we switched over to distilling our own water, we used it every day for about 8 years. When we put it in storage, the filters were/are still quite usable and ready for backup filtration when needed (for example, in a power failure). I think the filters themselves are rated to last for many thousands of gallons.”

Thanks much. Does it get rid of bacteria from, say, human waste like Cholera?

[driftdiver]

I’m sure its somethign to do with the stupid regulations you have out there.

Berkys are quite good but I dont think they’d travel well since they are made of thin aluminum.

[driftdiver]

I’ve never seen the WAPI. I’ve always planned on a full rolling boil to be safe. I guess it would save fuel to use a device like this.